FOOTNOTES:
[99] The epithet aringreypr is applied both to benches and helmets (see Strophes 3 and 16). Its meaning is doubtful: it has been rendered iron-bound, brass-bound, hearth-encircling, curved like an eagle's beak, etc. Benches and helmets of ceremony are evidently intended, probably ornamented with brass-work or figures of eagles. But to whichever substantive applied, I take its meaning to be the same.
[100] The messengers of Atli.
[101] The Giukungs.
[102] Gudrun: she had sent, by Atli's messengers, a ring to her brothers, as a warning, in which a wolf's hair was entwined, together with a note in runes, which were falsified by Vingi.
[103] Atli's men.
[104] That is Gunnar himself.
[105] Spears.
[106] The horse.
[107] The original word is eyrskan, a word of doubtful signification.