[218] Cf. Beowulf, 2705: forwrāt Wedra helm wyrm on middan.

[219] Cf. Cotton. Gnomic verses, ll. 26-7: Draca sceal on hlǣwe: frōd, frætwum wlanc.

[220] virusque profundens: wearp wæl-fȳre, 2582.

[221]

implicitus gyris serpens crebrisque reflexus

orbibus et caudae sinuosa volumina ducens

multiplicesque agitans spiras.

Cf. Beowulf, 2567-8, 2569, 2561 (hring-boga), 2827 (wōhbogen).

[222] Volospá, 172-3 in Corpus Poeticum Boreale. I, 200.

[223] Cf. on this Olrik, Heltedigtning, I, 305-15.