FOOTNOTES:
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Sæmundur fróði, Snorri Sturluson, Blackwell, Joseph Andrew, and Thorpe, Benjamin
Source notes
[54] Slaughtering and carrying off the cattle on the sea-shore.
[55] The Valkyriur.
[56] Dark words of deadly import.
[57] The superstition commemorated In this strophe is, no doubt, the origin of some very beautiful ballads in the later literature of Scandinavia and Germany referring to this superstition:
"When thou, my dear, art cheerful, And easy in thy mind, The coffin where I slumber Is all with roses lined. But oft as thou'rt in sorrow, And bow'd with grief so sore, Is all the while my coffin Brim full of blood and gore."
[58] Probably house of draffs; place of swine, swill, lees.