[Footnote 5: In the Rigsmal we are informed how Heimdall, under the
name of Rig, became the progenitor of the three orders of mankind.]
[Footnote 6: In the Germanic tongues, as in the Semitic, the sun is
fem., the moon masc.]
[Footnote 7: The Vala here speaks of herself in the third person.]
[Footnote 8: His eye here understood to signify the sun.]
[Footnote 9: A personification of gold. With the introduction of gold
was the end of the golden age.]
[Footnote 10: _i.e._, Odin's: his hall is the world.]
[Footnote 11: Of introducing the use of gold.]