Note 1 — PART I
Reading edition
‘Idise’ means ‘women’; here battle-maids similar in character to the Northern valkyries.
2. ‘Knee-fetters’ for the sake of the alliteration; the original means simply ‘fetters.’
3. Phol is probably the same as Balder.
Reading edition
‘Idise’ means ‘women’; here battle-maids similar in character to the Northern valkyries.
2. ‘Knee-fetters’ for the sake of the alliteration; the original means simply ‘fetters.’
3. Phol is probably the same as Balder.