³⁰ Kenning for “giants.”

³¹ This and the following stanza rather irrelevantly introduce material which is otherwise found in a different connection (Thór’s journey to Utgartha-Loki). According to “Gylfaginning,” Chap. 43, Thór in company with Loki drives to the world of giants in his goat chariot. They spend the night with a “farmer,” Egil. Thór slaughters his goats, flays them, and has them boiled for supper. He invites the inmates of the house to partake, warning them, however, to throw all the bones back on the skins; but the son of Egil (on Loki’s malicious advice?) had already split one of the shank bones to get at the marrow. Next morning when Thór resuscitates the goats, one of them is lame. The frightened farmer appeases Thór’s wrath by giving him his son Thjálfi and his daughter Roskva as servitors.

³² The rendering of this line is purely conjectural.