[237.] Ahava, a dry cold wind that blows in March and April, probably corresponding to our cold spring east wind.
[285, 286.] Vipunen here refers to himself as a little man, which I presume is to be understood figuratively, as I have rendered it.
RUNO XVIII
[379.] Compare Cuchullain's wooing of Eimer in Irish story.
RUNO XIX
[33.] This episode is very like the story of Jason and Medea.
[210.] "The wolf Fenrir opens his enormous mouth; the lower jaw reaches to the earth, and the upper one to heaven, and would in fact reach still further were there space to admit of it." (Prose Edda.)
[217.] Vetehinen, a water-spirit.