[76]. A stockade made like Danavirki or other strongholds in the north.
[77]. Wergild, indemnity.
[78]. Alfheimar. In one text, Jötunheimar. In later times Risar, Troll, and Dvergar became synonymous with giants, dwarfs, and wizards.
[79]. Kvisl—a forked river, one of the forks where they unite—it also means a branch of a tree.
Vana-kvisl means the river of the Vanir; it is supposed now that it was the river Don which flows into the Sea of Azow, but it is doubtful.
[80]. This was probably the river Don, which is near the Ural Mountains.
[81]. Svíthjód the Great seems to be Russia—Norway, Sweden, perhaps Denmark and the shores of the Baltic.
[82]. Gefjon was one of the Asynjur.
[83]. Svithjód = Sweden, but it can hardly be taken in these early Sagas as exactly corresponding to modern Sweden.
[84]. People were buried with their wealth.