[Footnote 118: See Str. 10, and Ghv. 9, and. Luning, Glossar.]
[Footnote 119: "The Alfar's Lament" is the early dawn, and is in
apposition to "early morn," in the following line. The swart Alfar are
meant, who were turned to stone if they did not flee from the light of
day. This is the best interpretation I can offer of this obscure
strophe.]
[Footnote 120: In this and the four following strophes the person
alluded to is their half-brother Erp, of whose story nothing more is
known. He, it appears, had preceded or outridden the others.]
[Footnote 121: Malmesbury relates a similar story of King Æthelstan
and his cupbearer.]
[Footnote 122: Lit. wolf-trees; a fugitive criminal being called vargr
_wolf_.]
[Footnote 123: According to the Skalda it would appear that they cut
off his hands and feet while he was asleep. Erp, had they not murdered
him, was to have cut off his head.]
[Footnote 124: Odin, as in the battle of Bravalla.]