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LXXIII. “Understanding is called wisdom, counsel, discernment, memory, speculation, intelligence, arithmetic, far sight,' craft, word-wit, preeminence. It is called subtlety, wiliness, falsehood, fickleness.

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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.

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COD. REG. Codex Regius, one of the manuscripts in which Snorri's Edda is preserved.

COD. WORM.

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Codex Wormianus, another of the manuscripts.

COD. UPSAL. Codex Upsaliensis, a third manuscript (U).

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