[Footnote 99: The epithet aringreypr is applied both to benches and
helmets (see Strophes 3 and 16). Its meaning is doubtful: it has been
rendered _iron-bound_, _brass-bound_, _hearth-encircling_, _curved
like an eagle's beak_, etc. Benches and helmets of ceremony are
evidently intended, probably ornamented with brass-work or figures of
eagles. But to whichever substantive applied, I take its meaning to be
the same.]
[Footnote 100: The messengers of Atli.]
[Footnote 101: The Giukungs.]
[Footnote 102: Gudrun: she had sent, by Atli's messengers, a ring to
her brothers, as a warning, in which a wolf's hair was entwined,
together with a note in runes, which were falsified by Vingi.]
[Footnote 103: Atli's men.]
[Footnote 104: That is Gunnar himself.]
[Footnote 105: Spears.]
[Footnote 106: The horse.]
[Footnote 107: The original word is eyrskan, a word of doubtful
signification.]
[Footnote 108: The serpent-pen.]