_Fore-ordained_, settled by the will of the gods in early times. _Foster_, to rear, to bring up a child, to care for, to shelter, e.g. "Now would I foster Sigurd;" "the house that fostered me." _Franklin_, a well-to-do farmer, one who is not merely a hired servant. _Freyia_, the wife of Odin and chief of the goddesses. _Gainsay_, to resist, to refuse a request. _Gaping Gap_, a name given to the state of things that existed before the world was made. There was supposed to have been an empty space till Odin created the world of gods and men. _Garner_, to gather up, to store up; sometimes, to reap. _Garth_, an enclosure, a place from which things may be garnered, e.g. "within the garth that it (the wall) girdeth." _Gear_, a word used with many meanings, as, dress, arms, possessions, anything that a person has or uses, e.g. war-gear, all a man's armour and weapons; mail-gear, a man's armour. _Gird_, to tie round, to be all round, e.g. "The Wrath to his side is girded;" "a wall doth he behold ... but within the garth that it girdeth no work of man is set." _Glaive_, a sword. _God-home_, Asgard. _Gold-bestrider_, the name given to Sigurd by Giuki because he rode with the treasure of gold upon his saddle. To bestride is to stand over anything with one foot on each side. _Good-heart_, kindly strength. _Goodlihead_, a word of praise which is generally used to mean bodily beauty, but sometimes to mean beauty of character. _Grovel_, to crouch low on the ground. _Guest-fain_, hospitable, ready to welcome guests. _Guile_, cunning, cleverness used for an evil purpose. _Guise_, appearance, kind, dress, e.g. "such was the guise of his raiment;" "fair-clad in hunter's guise." _Halers of the hawsers_, pullers of the ropes, _i.e._ seamen. _Hallow_, to set apart for a solemn purpose, to make holy, e.g. I hallow me to Odin for a leader of his host. _Hangings_, tapestry, woven stuff on which pictures or figures of gods and heroes were embroidered, used to decorate the walls of houses, e.g. "The walls were strange and wondrous with noble stories told;" "the gods on the hangings stirred." _Harness_, armour. _Hauberk_, a breast-plate. _Heave_, to rise and fall, sometimes merely to rise, e.g. "The doom ... heaves up dim through the gloom." _High-seat_, the dais or chief seat where the master of a house and his principal guests sat. _High-tide_, time of festival. _Hindfell_, the word means "deer-mountain," since "fell" means any hill, and "hind" is the word we still use for a deer. _Hireling_, a servant. _Hist_, to give attention, to listen. _Hithermost_, nearest. _Hoard_, a store. Generally used of a treasure which the owner keeps selfishly, e.g. Fafnir's wisdom is called "grudged and hoarded wisdom," and his gold the "heavy hoard." _Hoenir_, one of Odin's sons; a wise and blameless god who, the others believed, would return to reign over a new heaven and a new earth when Ragnarok was past. _Holt_, a woodland. _Hoppled_, fettered.