1 Other favorite themes, such as the death of Brynhild, the fall of the Niflungs, and Guthrún’s plaint, also received parallel treatment by two or more poets.
2 Possibly, remnants of the Káruljóð, or “Lay of Kára,” mentioned in the Final Prose.
3 In England, in “Sweet William’s Ghost”; see Child’s The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, II, 226; in Germany, Bürger’s “Leonore.”
4 “The Skilful.”
5 Probably invented ad hoc. It is not the same as the Hunland over which Buthli, and after him Atli, held sway.