[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.