ping_, the topmost row of bricks in a wall, the top of a wall.

_Craft_, skill, knowledge of some particular art, a trade or
occupation, e.g. song-craft.

_Cull_, to choose, pick out.

_Cup of Daring Promise_, see _Boar of Son_.

_Dais_, a raised part of the floor at one end of a banquet hall, where
the principal persons sat.

_Dastard_, a coward.

_Dawn-dusk_, the twilight at dawn before the sun is fully risen.

_Day of the Battle_, Ragnarok, when the spirits of dead warriors
should join in the battle of the gods. "_Day of Doom_" has the same
meaning.

_Dearth_, want, famine, scarcity.

_Deft_, skilful, e.g. deft in every cunning.

_Dight_, made ready, prepared, e.g. war-dight, prepared for war.

_Dole_, n. a gift dealt out as charity; n. to measure out in small
portions, e.g. I doled out wisdom to thee.

_Doom_, n. a sentence, verdict, e.g. give righteous doom; n. to
condemn, to sentence. _Doom-ring_, a circle of stones or hazel poles
where kings heard complaints from their people and gave judgment.

_Do on_, put on; often shortened into "don"; cf. doff, which is
shortened from do off.

_Door-wards_, porters, door-keepers.

_Dragons_, the war-ships of the northern nations, which often had
their prows carved into a dragon's head.

_Dwindle_, to grow less.

_Edges of bale_, the sword edges, which bring bale or destruction.

_Egg_, to urge on, to persuade to some deed, e.g. "Too much thou
eggest me."

_Eld_, old age.

_Endlong_, length-ways, along. _Endlong_ and _athwart_, along and
across.

_Erewhile_, some time ago, formerly.

_Erne_, an eagle.

_Eyen_, eyes; old plural of eye.

_Fain_, glad, willing, full of desire. Sometimes used as an adverb
meaning "willingly," e.g. "They fain would go aland."

_Fair-speech-masters_, men skilled in poetry. There were professional
singers and poets called skalds among the northern people, and the
power to make verses and to sing was cultivated among the mass of the
people and was fairly common.

_Fallow_, lying quiet, inactive, not bearing crops. The expression,
"fallow bondage," means a bondage of sleep and idleness.

_Fare_, to travel. Sometimes when joined to adverbs it means to
prosper, e.g. to fare ill, to fare well, how does he fare?

_Fashion_, to make, to arrange. Regin hoped to be the world's
"fashioning lord," that is, the supreme king and orderer of all
things.

_Fell-abiding folk_, men who worked at home instead of going out