13. _Gud nåde mig, som liten är_, a paraphrase of the second line from a
common children's prayer beginning, _Gud, som haver barnen kär_; the
poet also seems to have copied from this the irregular form _kär_, in
line 12.
13. The home is so clearly in the lad's mind that the idea is adequately
expressed by _där_.
18. _trollena_, a vernacular def. pl. form for _trollen_. This form in
_-a_ has been exploited by recent metropolitan writers, as also by Selma
Lagerlöf, but without gaining general favor among the best stylists of
Sweden.
22. _vidan hed_, archaic for _vida heden_. Cf. _grönan ö (gröna ön)_,
45.
25. _så_, frequently thus interpolated in careless speech and here
lending a savor of the common tongue.
39. _hemsk_ (frightened),--_till mods_ being mentally supplied from the
second stanza.
50. _den arma jord(en)_, the suffixed definite sign being frequently
dropped in poetic style.
52. _all ... mord_; the correspondence between qualifiers and nouns is
sometimes lost in a series, as here, _lögn_ and _flärd_ (sg.) requiring
_all_, but _mord_ (pl.), _alla_. Analogous inconsistencies are found in
the best literature, as in Tegner's Addresses (_På Växjö gymnasium,
1836_): "Den som _sitter_ vid lästen och den som sitter vid statsstyret,
vid svarvstolen eller på lärostolen, _vid plogen_ eller lyran," the
quotation conveying the incongruous idea of "sitting at the plow," as at
the shoemaker's bench or the turning lathe.
62. _Herren vill jag lova_ calls for a sharp distinction between _lova_
(praise) and _lova_ (promise).