Translated by W. H. Auden and P. B. Taylor Introduction Back to Source Texts Index 1. He gives riches to some, to some, victory, word skill to wights, wisdom to others, breezes to sailors, song-craft to skalds, and manliness to many a warrior. Why not joust words with me 11 as we sit on our saddles, match our lore of lines of lordly races, of the kin of kings who came from gods. The time when the beings of the nether world may be abroad.
Wolves are the horses of trolls and witches.
The boar is elsewhere the animal sacred to her brother Frey. See the references in Note 8 above. Generally, Freya's chariot has a span of cats. 8 and 14. See 'The Treachery of Asmund' 9.