Suttung is cheated—

His mead is stolen—

Gunlauth is weeping!”

[55] A Norwegian slang expression, for “early rising.”

[56] There is a beautiful superstition—if it is not a real religious truth—in Norway, that those we have loved best on earth become our unseen guardians, and follow us always, to warn us of danger.

[57]

“Then shall brethren be

Each other’s bane,

And sister’s children rend

The ties of kin.