[7] The Vala here speaks of herself in the third person.
[8] His eye here understood to signify the sun.
[9] A personification of gold. With the introduction of gold was the end of the golden age.
[10] i.e., Odin's: his hall is the world.
[11] Of introducing the use of gold.
THE LAY OF VAFTHRUDNIR.
Odin visits the Giant (Jötun) Vafthrûdnir, for the purpose of proving his knowledge. They propose questions relative to the Cosmogony of the Northern creed, on the conditions that the baffled party forfeit his head. The Jötun incurs the penalty.
Odin.
1. Counsel thou me now, Frigg! as I long to go Vafthrûdnir to visit; great desire, I say, I have, in ancient lore with that all-wise Jötun to contend.