¹⁰ See Note 11 below and “Vǫluspá,” St. 2.

¹¹ Here the paper manuscripts insert the following stanza, generally regarded as spurious and unnecessary:

Thou mayst ask, Vingthór,       if eager thou art
           to learn what lore I have:
the nine worlds over       oft I have fared,
           and mindful am I of much.

¹² Translated according to Bugge’s daring emendation. Hronn, “billow,” is one of ÆEgir’s daughters and, hence, may stand for “the sea”: in late Classical mythology, the sea goddess, Tethys, is the mother of the sky.