GLOSSARY.
- ÆGIR or ŒGIR, horror, terror.
- ÆSIR, sing. AS; God, Gods. ASYNJA, ASYNJOR; Goddess, Goddesses.
- AI, from a, a river.
- ALFADIR, or ALFODUR, All-Father, or the Father of All.
- ALFR, Elf.
- ALSVIDR, All-scorching.
- ALTHJOFR, lit. All-thief, an accomplished rascal.
- ALVISS, All-wise.
- AMSVARTNIR, grief, black, gloomy, swart.
- ANDHRIMNIR, soul, spirit, breath: from hrim, congealed vapour, rime.
- ANDLANGR, from aund, spirit, breath; and langr, long.
- ANDVARI, prob. from aund, spirit; cautious, timid.
- ANGURBODI, Anguish-boding, announcing or presaging calamity.
- ARVAKR, awakening early; ar, the dawn, Aurora.
- ASGARD, prop. ASGARDR, lit. God's-ward, or the abode of the gods.
- ASKR, an ash-tree.
- AUDHUMLA, void, vacuity, darkness, tenebrosity.
- AUDR, rich, wealthy.
- AURBODA, prop. AURBODA, snow, rain, storm; to announce whence; a messenger; hence an ambassador.
- AUSTRI, East, Oriental.
- BALDUR, prop. BALDR or BALLDR, fire, flame, bold.
- BALEYGR, Bale-eyed, i. e. endowed with a clear, piercing vision.
- BAREY, the Frondiferous-isle; an island.
- BAULVERKR, Evil-worker; producing evil, calamity.
- BAUMBURR, prob. cog. with bumbr, belly, cavity.
- BELI, prob. from belja, to bellow.
- BERGELMIR, Mountain-old, i. e. the old man of the mountain.
- BIFLINDI, the Inconstant: from bif, motion; and lyndi, disposition, mind.
- BIFROST, BIF-RAUST, the Tremulous-bridge of the Aerial-bridge, signifying also aerial: a certain space, a mile, a rest.
- BIL, a moment, an interval, an interstice.
- BILEYGR, endowed with fulminating eyes, a tempest, especially a fulminating tempest or thunder-storm.
- BILSKIRNIR, sometimes stormy, and sometimes serene; which, as Thor's mansion prob. denotes the atmosphere, would be a very appropriate term; or storm-stilling, i. e. imparting serenity to the tempest.
335
