_Wolves are always struggling for it._ See _Gylfaginning_, ch. 12 (from _GrÌmnism·l_, str. 39). _He who made it_, etc. I have followed Heusler's reading and read _er_ for _ker_ and _˛Û_ or _sj·_ for _˛·_. _Laying their eggs._ For _verja_ read _verpa_. _Have no husbands._ For _eigu_, read _eigut_, as on p. 121. _Game of chess._ The text has _hneftafl_, i.e. a game having certain features in common with chess which was played in Iceland till the introduction of the latter, probably in the thirteenth century. Game-pieces have been discovered in Iceland which were probably used for this game. Some are plain and hemispherical in shape, others are shaped with a man's head or a dog's head. For a full and interesting description of _hneftafl_ see H. J. R. Murray, _A History of Chess_, Oxford, 1913, Appendix I, 'Chess in Iceland,' pp. 443-446. _∆gis meyjar._ ∆gir or HlÈr, the husband of Rann, is a personification of the sea; but the kennings '∆gir's daughters,' '∆gir's steed,' etc. for 'billows' are common in poetry. See _Helgakvia Hundingsbana_ II, str. 29, and _Bragar-rÊur_, ch. 55 (included in Brodeur's translation of the _Prose Edda_ as _Sk·ldskaparm·l_, ch. I). _Reefs._ For _brimserkum_, read _brimskerjum_. _Ocean-path._ For _brim-reiar_, read _brim-leiar_. The passage is possibly corrupt. _That is the hunn._ This stanza is difficult to interpret as we have no clear information as to the character of the game. It would seem that like the game of the Welsh _tawlbwrdd_, it was played between sides composed, the one of sixteen 'fair' (white) men, the other of a King (called _hnefa_ or _hunn_) and eight 'dark' (black) men. Cf. note to _Game of Chess_ above. See also Murray, _A History of Chess_, Oxford 1913, Appendix I, 'Chess in Iceland,' pp. 443-446. _Four walking_, etc. This riddle is found in a form almost identical with our text in Jakobsen's _Dialect and Place Names of Shetland_ (Lerwick, 1897), p. 53. The 'sow' is also found in the _Exeter Book_, while 'the waves,' 'the anchor' and 'hailstones' have certain affinities with the AS. riddles. _King Itrek's Game._ The reference here seems to be to a game something like chess. The text (R) given by Heusler in his edition of the _Eddica Minora_, p. 118, reads: "That is Itrek and Andath when they sit at their game." _Dead men_, etc. In this strophe there seems to be an elaborate play on words. The phrase 'dead men' (_dauar menn_) seems to be a disguise for _val_ which means 'the slain' as well as 'hawk.' So also 'channel of blood' seems to be a disguise for _Êi_ which means 'vein' as well as 'eider-duck.' _Sleipnir._ Othin's eight-footed horse. Cf. especially _Gylfaginning_, ch. 42. _Tell me lastly_, etc. In _Vaf˛r˙˛nism·l_, str. 54, Othin makes himself known to Vaf˛r˙˛nir by the same question. XII. _This pike_, etc. This verse is generally supposed to come from a lost poem on Heithrek.