[298]. Horse.
[299]. Odin.
[300]. His sword.
[301]. Háva = of the high, namely Odin; mál = song.
[302]. Giver in the text = host.
[303]. Meaning: anything will do at home.
[304]. Good sense.
[305]. Here the text has breast for mind or heart. The meaning of the stanza is that it is very hard to know another man’s mind.
[306]. This refers to Odin getting drunk from the mead of poetry which he stole from Suttung. (See later Edda.)
[307]. A Jotun woman.