CANTO XIII.
Stanza 2. då rår Höder för världen, then Höder (Öder) rules the world.
Höder, the blind brother of Balder, is the god of night and darkness.
7. Västervågor, the western sea.
12. din like, one like you.
17. Fritiof blygs, att han darrar, Fritiof is so ashamed that he trembles. The antecedent of han may be Björn and not Fritiof, the meaning then being, that the latter is ashamed because Björn trembles.
20. flödar, pours water.
22. eldröd hane. The red cock, the symbol of fire.
25. Muspels söner, the flames. Muspel or Muspelhem, the fire world, lay south of the abyss Ginnungagap and was guarded by the flame giant Surt.