a Trold or Demon of this name.

FREYA, the most exalted of the goddesses next to Frigga. She was the
protectress of the human race in general, but particularly of lovers.

FRIGGA, the wife of Odin and the mother of Balder; the most exalted of
all the goddesses.

GELDER, king of the Saxons (according to Saxo, in the life of Hother). He
is presumed here to have been killed by Hother, who is therefore called
"the bane of Gelder."

GEVAR, according to Saxo, a spaeman or prophet, the father of Nanna and
the foster-father of Hother. He makes him likewise king of Norway; but
Giver is not so in this piece.

HAEL or HAELA, the goddess of death. She was the daughter of Loke and
the giantess Angerbode, and was hurled down by Odin to her horrible
habitation.

HAELHEIM, Hael's dwelling. In the Edda it is called Helim, that is,
Hell; but as the word Hell has now a different signification, it was
necessary to invent here a word to express Hael's dwelling.

HAELWAY, the way of the dead, or the path to Haelheim.

HERTE, HERTA, or HERTHA, the earth, considered as a divine being and
worshipped as a goddess by the old German and Northern people, as
likewise by the Romans and others. The Edda calls this goddess Jord
(that is, earth), and makes her the daughter and wife of Odin, and the
mother of Thor, his first son.

HERTEDAL, the place in Sielland where Herte's grove was.

HOTHBROD, the father of Hother, according to Saxo, who makes him king of
Sweden, and thus Hother a Swede. Contrary to which, the author of this
piece found himself justified in reckoning Hother amongst the Skioldungs.

HOTHER, according to Saxo, was king of Denmark and Sweden; but his Life,
by the same, is a chain of fables, which has yet given considerable
occasion to the contents of this piece.

LEIRE, the ancient place of residence of the Danish kings, whence they
were termed "Kings of Leire."

LIDSKIALF, in the Edda Klidskialf, a place in Asgard from which Odin
surveys the whole world.

LOKE, a very wicked god, who, according to the Edda, was the cause of the
death of Balder, and was therefore conducted by the other gods to a
cavern, where they chained him to three rocks, there to suffer the most
painful punishment until the destruction of the world. By the giantess
Angerbode he begot Fenri's Wolf, Midgard's Serpent, and Hael. He was
reckoned among the Aser, and was, notwithstanding his wickedness,
beautiful of appearance.

MIDGARD'S SERPE