[39]. Sun, in the north, is of feminine gender, and the moon masculine.
[40]. The rim of heaven = the line of the sky from the horizon.
[41]. The sun.
[42]. The moon.
[43]. Rökstól—stol, seat or stool; rök, judgment.
[44]. Wind-chilly.
[45]. Sweet mood.
[46]. Bloody surf means poetically the sea, and the expression, the bones of Blain, a name nowhere else mentioned in the earlier Edda, seems to refer to a fight, the record of which is lost to us.
[47]. Modsognir and Durin, only mentioned here, refer to some lost myth. There seem to have been three kinds of tribes of Dvergar, having for chiefs, respectively, Modsognir, Durin, Dvalin. “Many man-likenesses in the earth,” namely Dvergar, who are often described as living under the earth.
[48]. The five stanzas (Nos. 11, 12, 13, 15, 16) omitted give a long list of names of Dvergar, among them those of Nyi, the growing moon; Nidi, the waning moon; Nordri, the north, &c.; Althjof, all-thief; Dvalin, the delayer, &c., &c.