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Balder's father, Fiolner, & Vithris were surnames of Odin, whose Hall was the great Elysium of the Scandinavians, and where they expected to quaff beer from the sculls of their enemies!
XXVI, Odin is called Vithris, or the Traveller, because he led the Goths from Scythia.
XXVII. Aslang was Regner's second queen. An antient poet imitates the thought that concludes this stanza.
Von væri mer Vitra manna, Snarpra seggia, Ef vær saman ættom.
I might expect Prudent men, And gallant beroes, Were we in wedlock join’d.
XXVIII. The Norwegians announced war by sending round the Her-ör or shaft of desolation to the different tribes; the Caledonians by a tick, burned at one end, called the cran-tara. from the Caelic cran a stick, & the Islandic tara war. The Scandinavian youth enter’d soon into the military line as appears from the following passage.
Tolf vetra nam Tyggi at heria
At twelve years began The king to plunder.
