Stanza 1. King Ring ruled over Ringerike, on the west side of Kristiania
fjord.
4. _snäckorna_, ships.
4. _vita vingar_, white wings, sails.
4. _av rikdom, som rikdomen (be)tingar_. Of wealth that brings more
wealth, or upon which further wealth is contingent.
11. _jag gått i frö_, I have grown old.
11. _kungens de glesnade lockar. De_ is here used irregularly.
17. _Men lungorna nekade bifall alltjämt_. Constantly the signs refused
to he affirmative. For reading of signs see note, canto II: 13.
2l. _i templet sätter jag min syster_. The temple of Balder is referred
to. Here persons were inviolate and it was especially a great crime for a
man to visit a woman in this sacred place.