The argument of the poem is found in the very title. Ithaka, according
to the Odyssey, was the native island of Odysseus, to which the hero of
the epic, after having taken part in the Trojan War, returned only after
years of reverses and vicissitudes.
6. _Herakles' stoder_, Gibraltar and the high rock on the opposite
coast, known in classic lore as the Pillars of Hercules.
30, 32. _smekning_--_räkning_--see SNOILSKY, _Den tjänande brodern_,
14-15, note.