⁵¹ The names of the valkyries indicate their warlike activities, like those of “Voluspá,” St. 30.

⁵² “Early-Awake” and “Very Swift,” the sun horses. See “Vafþrúðnismál,” St. 12, and “Sigrdrífumál,” St. 17.

⁵³ Snorri, in his “Gylfaginning,” Chap. 10, has the following prosy explanation of these: “Under their shoulders the gods placed two bellows to cool them, and in some lays these are called ‘icy irons’” (?).

⁵⁴ “Cooling.”

⁵⁵ This passage, as well as the following, is of doubtful meaning.

⁵⁶ “Hater,” the son of Hróthvitnir, “the Famous Wolf,” that is, Fenrir (who according to “Vafþrúðnismál,” St. 46-47, himself swallows the sun).

⁵⁷ See “Vafþrúðnismál,” St. 21.