CANTO X.
Stanza 1. tänk på, think of.
2. Sam and Hejd were two monsters that Helge had sent for and offered presents with the request that they raise a storm that would destroy Fritiof and his men. They appeared in the guise of polar bear and eagle.
2. gudars hem, the heavens.
3. Solundar-ö, an island near the Norwegian coast, probably at the outlet of Sognefjord. Today the group is called the Outer and the Inner Sol Islands.
4. gudatimrade, built by the gods. See note, canto 3: 164 seq.
5. kan du icke se för natt, could not see because of the darkness.
5. dra seglaren i kvav. Drag the sailor into the deep. Gå i kvav, to founder, go down.
5. Ran(a), wife of Ägir and goddess of the sea, was hostile to men and sought to drag them down into the deep. She was passionately fond of gold, and sailors deemed it wise to have some of the yellow metal with them with which to appease her in case they foundered at sea. (See stanza 6.)
5. åt oss, for us.
6. fästa havsbrud, plight troth with the goddess of the sea.
7. kvad den, called it forth by incantation.
8. skepna'n, skepnaden.
8. är du gudars dotter. See canto III: 164 seq.
9. hålla sjön, keep afloat.
10. Efjesund, a sound in the Orkney Islands. Angantyr was jarl of the Orkneys.
11. havets mör, the waves, nine beautiful daughters of Ägir and Ran who delighted in playing all over the surface of their father's vast domain.
11. mjödhorn vandrande på guldfot. The drinking horns of the ancients often had metal supports.