[128] More properly speaking, to the earth which it encircled.
[129] A ferreous or glacial refrigeration.
[130] i.e. If Thor drove over Bifrost with his thunder chariot.
[131] i.e. Present, Past, and Future.
[132] Namely, his having killed Baldur.
[133] Mind or Thought, and Memory.
[134] i.e. Devouring flame.
[135] i.e. Spirit or thought.
[136] i.e. Eld or Old Age.
[137] Finn Magnusen's explanation of this myth is, that Iduna—the ever-renovating Spring—being in the possession of Thjassi—the desolating winter—all nature languishes until she is delivered from her captivity. On this being effected, her presence again diffuses joy and gladness, and all things revive; while her pursuer, Winter, with his icy breath, dissolves in the solar rays indicated by the fires lighted on the walls of Asgard.