Note 23 — ACT FIRST.
Reading edition
This is the poet’s own explanation of this difficult passage. “Hvirvlens vætter,” he writes, is equivalent to “Svimmelhedens ånder”—i.e., spirits of dizziness or vertigo.
Reading edition
This is the poet’s own explanation of this difficult passage. “Hvirvlens vætter,” he writes, is equivalent to “Svimmelhedens ånder”—i.e., spirits of dizziness or vertigo.