[Footnote 28: To wit, that they were short of kettles for brewing.]
[Footnote 29: That is divining rods.]
[Footnote 30: The great serpent that encircles the earth.]
[Footnote 31: According to the Prose Edda, the giant, overcome with
fright, took out his knife and severed Thor's line.]
[Footnote 32: This strophe belongs apparently to another poem.]