[53] "Swarthy skarf," the skarf, or pelecanus cardo, the cormorant. He compares the message of Thorwald to the cormorant shimming over the waves, and says he will never take it. "Snap at flies," a very common Icelandic metaphor from fish rising to a fly.
[54] Maurer thinks the allusion is here to some mythological legend on Odin's adventures which has not come dawn to us.
[55] "He that giant's," etc., Thor.
[56] "Mew-field's bison," the sea-going ship, which sails over he plain of the sea-mew.
[57] "Bell's warder," the Christian priest whose bell-ringing formed part of the rites of the new faith.
[58] "Falcon of the strand," ship.
[59] "Courser of the causeway," ship.
[60] "Gylfi's hart," ship.
[61] "Viking's snow-shoe," sea-king's ship.
[62] "Boiling Kettle," This was a hver, or hot spring.