[328]. To Odin is attributed the power to make men in battle mad with terror like swine.—‘Ynglinga Saga,’ ch. 6.

[329]. Something as alms.

[330]. War.

[331]. Men.

[332]. Two stanzas missing, see vol. i. p. [322].

[333]. Meaning that she would have no meals before she came to the gods, as she intended to die with her father.

[334]. He had a son called Gunnar, who had died a short time before. The best stanzas only are given.

[335]. I.e., tongue. The heavy air of the tongue = breath.

[336]. Odin’s the t = poetry.

[337]. The breast. The people believed that thought came from the breast.