Stanza 2. _då rår Höder för världen_, then Höder (Öder) rules the world.
Höder, the blind brother of Balder, is the god of night and darkness.
7. _Västervågor_, the western sea.
12. _din like_, one like you.
17. _Fritiof blygs, att han darrar_, Fritiof is so ashamed that he
trembles. The antecedent of _han_ may be Björn and not Fritiof, the
meaning then being, that the latter is ashamed because Björn trembles.
20. _flödar_, pours water.
22. _eldröd hane_. The red cock, the symbol of fire.
25. _Muspels söner_, the flames. Muspel or Muspelhem, the fire world, lay
south of the abyss Ginnungagap and was guarded by the flame giant Surt.