FOOTNOTES
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Snorri Sturluson and Anderson, Rasmus Björn
Source notes
1. The third volume of this work has not yet appeared.
2. Keyser.
3. White Skald.
4. Black Skald.
5. Dasent translates “hövuðtungur” (chief or head tongues) with “lords,” which is certainly an error.
6. Near Upsala.
7. A heroic poem, giving the pedigree (tal) of Norse kings.
8. Heimskringla: Ynglinga Saga, ch. v.
9. Heimskringla: Harald Harfager’s Saga, ch. xix.
10. The walker.
11. Elder Edda: Havamal.
12. Elder Edda: The Vala’s Prophecy, 6.
13. Elder Edda: The Vala’s Prophecy, 56.
14. Elder Edda: Hyndla’a Lay, 34.
15. Elder Edda: Vafthrudner’s Lay, 30.
16. Elder Edda: Vafthrudner’s Lay, 31.
17. Elder Edda: Vafthrudner’s Lay, 35.
18. Elder Edda: The Vala’s Prophecy, 8. In Old Norse the sun is feminine, and the moon masculine. See below, sections 11 and 12.
19. Elder Edda: Grimner’s Lay, 40, 41. Comp. Vafthrudner’s Lay, 21.
20. That wolves follow the sun and moon, is a wide-spread popular superstition. In Sweden, a parhelion is called Solvarg (sun-wolf).
21. Elder Edda: The Vala’s Prophecy, 43, 44.
22. Elder Edda: The Vala’s Prophecy, 12, 14-16, 18, 19.
23. Elder Edda: The Vala’s Prophecy, 24.
24. Elder Edda: Grimner’s Lay, 29.
25. Elder Edda: Fafner’s Lay, 13.
26. The Icelandic barr. See Vigfusson, sub voce.
27. Elder Edda: Grimner’s Lay, 35, 34.
28. Elder Edda: The Vala’s Prophecy, 22.
29. Elder Edda: The Vala’s Prophecy, 70.
30. Elder Edda: Vafthrudner’s Lay, 37.
31. Elder Edda. Loke’s Quarrel, 29, 47.
32. Elder Edda: Grimner’s Lay, 46-50.
33. Oku is derived from the Finnish thunder-god, Ukko.
34. Elder Edda: Grimner’s Lay, 24.
35. The author of the Younger Edda is here mistaken. See note on page 82.
36. Elder Edda: Grimner’s Lay, 12.
37. Compare Vainamoinen, the son of Ukko, in the Finnish epic Kalevala.
38. Elder Edda: Grimner’s Lay, 11.
39. Elder Edda: Grimner’s Lay, 14.
40. Icel. frú (Ger. frau; Dan. frue), pl. frúr, means a lady. It is used of the wives of men of rank or title. It is derived from Freyja.