[15] The chief magistrate of an amt or county.
[16] Bailiff.
[17] Auber Forestier's translation.
[18] Translated by Augusta Plesner and S. Rugeley-Powers.
[19] The hulder dwells in forests and mountains, appears like a beautiful woman, and usually wears a blue petticoat and a white hood. She has a long tail, which she tries to conceal when she is among people. She is fond of cattle.
[20] Translated by Augusta Plesner and S. Rugeley-Powers.
[21] Shooting or flinging steel over the head of hulders, trolls, etc., makes the witchery vanish. Thus also a piece of steel laid in the cradle prevents hulders from exchanging little children for their own.
[22] A kind of long snow-shoe.
[23] Adapted to the metre of the original from the translation of Augusta Plesner and S. Rugeley-Powers.
[24] The peasants call the priest father.