LXXIII. “Understanding is called wisdom, counsel, discernment, memory, speculation, intelligence, arithmetic, far sight,' craft, word-wit, preeminence. It is called subtlety, wiliness, falsehood, fickleness. 2 LXXIV. "Expression is of two kinds: that which is called voice, and that which is called manners; manners is also temper. Reiði also has double meaning: reiði is the illhumor of a man, and reiði is also the rigging of a ship or the driving-gear of a horse. Fár also has double meaning: far signifies wrath, and far2 signifies a ship. "Men have made frequent use of such ambiguous expressions as these; and this practice is called punning. [Lith3 is that part of a man where bones meet; lið is a word for ship; lið means people; when a man renders another assistance, his aid is lið; líð signifies ale. Hlið signifies the gate in a garth; hliðr men call an ox, and hlíð signifies a slope. One may make such use of these distinct meanings in skaldship as to make a pun that is hard to interpret, provided one employ other distinctions than those which are indicated by the half-lines which precede. These cases are there, and many others, in which divers things have the same name in common.]" I That is, prophecy. 2 These are properly two different words. 3 Lid. ABBREVIATIONS CL.-VIG. = the Cleasby-Vigfússon Icelandic-English Dictionary, Oxford, 1874. COD. REG. Codex Regius, one of the manuscripts in which Snorri's Edda is preserved. COD. WORM. = Codex Wormianus, another of the manuscripts. COD. UPSAL. Codex Upsaliensis, a third manuscript (U). = |