_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 to battle. _Flame-blink_, the flash of light from the fire round Brynhild's home. _Flaw_, defect, fault, e.g. "the hauberk ... clean wrought without a flaw;" "the ring ... that hath ... no flaw for God to mend." If used of rain, it means a slight shower, e.g. "a flaw of summer rain," _Fleck_, spot, mark. _Foam-bow_, the small rainbow seen in the spray from a waterfall. _Foil_, n. defeat, failure; n. to defeat, to baffle. _Fold_, a place for shutting up sheep. It is often used meaning any dwelling-place, e.g. Fafnir's abode is called "the lone destroyer's fold." _Folk_, people. It is often joined with other words, e.g. man-folk, Goth-folk. _Folk of the-war-wands forgers_, are the race of dwarfs who had great skill in the making of weapons. _Fond_, used in Old English to mean "foolish," or sometimes only to give emphasis, as in the expression "thy fondest need," meaning "thy greatest need." _Foot-hills_, the lower hills round the base of a very high mountain.