rge weapons.

_Sooth_, truth.

_Sore_, very much. It is generally used about things which are evil or
painful, but sometimes only to give emphasis, e.g. "amber that the
southern men love sore."

_Spear-hedge_, the bristling spears of an army in battle; cf.
battle-wood, spear-wood.

_Spell-drenched_, stupefied or overwhelmed by magic.

_Sphere-stream_, the space beyond the air of this world, in which the
planets or spheres move on their courses.

_Stark_, stiff, hard, severe.

_Staunch_, steadfast, unchanging.

_Stead_, n. a place; it is often joined to other words, e.g.
hall-stead, a hall or the place where a hall has been, as in the
sentence, "I went to the pillared hall-stead;" n. _stead or
bestead_, to serve, to aid, e.g. "to stead me in the fight."

_Steadfast_, unchanging, faithful, unmoved.

_Stithy_, a blacksmith's forge.

_Strait_, narrow, cramped.

_Stripling_, a young man just grown up; cf. youngling.

_Sunder_, to separate, e.g. "We wend on the sundering ways."

_Sun-dog_, a bright spot like a faint image of the sun, seen near it
in cloudy weather.

_Swaddling_, anything that wraps or enfolds, e.g. the coils of
Fafnir passing over Sigurd in the pit are called "the swaddling of
death."

_Swart-haired_, dark-haired.

_Swathe_, the long line of mown corn behind a reaper; cf. "swathes
of the sword," _i.e._ heaps of dead in battle.

_Targe_, a shield.

_Tarry_, to wait, to linger, e.g. "Tarry till I say a word."

_Thrall_, a slave, "_short-lived thralls of the gods_," mortal men,
not dwarfs or giants.

_Tide_, time, e.g. "the tide when my father fell;" "the night-tide."

_Tiles of Odin_, war shields, so called because Odin was god of war.

_Tiller_, the handle of the rudder which steers a ship.

_Toils_, snares, fetters.

_To-morn_, tomorrow morning.

_Train_, to entice, bring by trickery.

_Tree-hole_, tree-trunk.

_Troth_, a promise, generally a promise of marriage.

_Troth-plight_, promised in marriage.

_Trow_, to believe.

_Twi-bill_, an axe with a double-edged blade. It was the weapon which
Odin carried when he appeared to men.

_Unbitted_, never taught to obey the bit, not broken in.

_Unholpen_, unhelped. Holpen is the old form of the p.p. helped.

_Unstable_, changeable, not lasting.

_Uttermost horn_, the signal for Ragnarok. It was believed that
Heimdall, one of the gods who guarded a bridge called Bifrost between
Asgard and the earth, would blow a bla