(1) "Forge which foams with song," the poet's head, in which
songs are forged, and gush forth like foaming mead.
(2) "Hero's helm-prop," the hero's, man's, head which supports
his helm.
(3) It is needless to say that this Hall was not Hall of the
Side.
(4) "Wolf of Gods," the "caput lupinum," the outlaw of heaven,
the outcast from Valhalla, Thangbrand.
(5) "The other wolf," Gudleif.
(6) "Swarthy skarf," the skarf, or "pelecanus carbo", the
cormorant. He compares the message of Thorwald to the
cormorant skimming over the waves, and says he will never
take it. "Snap at flies," a very common Icelandic metaphor
from fish rising to a fly.
(7) Maurer thinks the allusion is here to some mythological
legend on Odin's adventures which has not come down to us.
(8) "He that giant's," etc., Thor.
(9) "Mew-field's bison," the sea-going ship, which sails over
the plain of the sea-mew.
(10) "Bell's warder," the Christian priest whose bell-ringing
formed part of the rites of the new faith.
(11) "Falcon of the strand," ship.
(12) "Courser of the causeway," ship.
(13) "Gylfi's hart," ship.
(14) "Viking's snow-shoe," sea-king's ship.