The Viking Age. Volume 2 (of 2) / The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations

by Paul B. Du Chaillu

[288]. A sword.

[289]. Spider.

[290]. Woman’s house.

[291]. On the sea.

[292]. The swans swim to their nests and lay eggs; the shell of the eggs is neither made by hand nor shaped by hammer, but the swan with whom they beget the eggs is breasting the waves outside the islands.

[293]. The bears of the North sleep all winter.

[294]. Ægir.

[295]. Ægir = the sea.

[296]. Ran, the wife of Ægir. According to the Prose Edda, Gymir is the same as Ægir and Hlér.

[297]. Rocks.