[13] A town at the mouth of the Christiania Firth. It was a great place for traffic in early times, and was long the only mart in the south-east of Norway.

[14] Rill of wolf—stream of blood.

[15] A province of Sweden.

[16] An island in the Baltic, off the coast of Esthonia.

[17] Endil's courser—periphrasis for a ship.

[18] Sigar's storm—periphrasis for a sea-fight.

[19] Grieve, i.e., bailiff, head workman.

[20] Swanbath's beams, periphrasis for gold.

[21] "Thou, that heapest hoards," etc.—merely a periphrasis for man, and scarcely fitting, except in irony, to a splitter of firewood.

[22] That is, slew him in a duel.