[Footnote 67: The original words, hrafns hrælundir, _the raven's
corpse-trees._ So Grimm understands the line; because that bird hops
about upon the armour as upon a tree.]
[Footnote 68: The superstition of the _healing hand_ is not yet
extinct in Iceland. Dr. Maurer relates a story of a man in Reykjavik
to whom it would seem to have been communicated by an elfin, in a
dream.]
[Footnote 69: Literally _apple-tree_.]
[Footnote 70: The name of a rune.]
[Footnote 71: Literally beech- (book-) runes, from being used for book
writing or graving on thin leaves of beech (bok), whence our _book_.
Bok also signifies _acupictile_, vel _acupictum (velum, auloeum_).]
[Footnote 72: An allusion to Sigurd's unhappy end.]