GEFJUN.  The goddess of maids.  Geirs-odd (spear-death).  Death by the spear, self-inflicted.  See Valhal.  GERD.  Frey’s wife, and very beautiful.  Gimle.  The heaven of heavens, where dwell the righteous after Ragnarok.  Gjallarhorn.  The horn of Heimdal, the Saint Peter of the old mythology.  It was heard all over the world.  Glitner (the glittering).  Forsete’s golden dwelling.  Groning-sound.  A sound between the Danish Islands.  Gudbrand’s dale.  Canto XIV, p. 138. in the diocese of Aggerhus, celebrated afterward (1612) for a battle in which the Norwegians slaughtered the forces of Col.  St. Clair, the Scotch ally of Christian IV, of Denmark.  Hagbart. the sea-king, who became secretly betrothed to Signe, of Princess, thereby gaining the enmity of her father, who captured and hung him.  Signe, unwilling to survive her betrothed, set fire to her dwelling and was burned to death.—­See Cantos XVI and XVII.  Hagring.  Fata morgana.  Ha’vama’l.  The high song of Odin, containing many wise precepts for the government of men.  Hel.  The goddess of death.  HILDER.  The goddess of war.  Hoder.  The blind god; brother of Balder.  Tempted by Loke, he slew Balder with the mistletoe.  Ida’s plain.  Where the gods assemble after Ragnarok.  Idun.  Wife of Brage.  She is the rejuvenating goddess, the “ever-renovating spring,” and hence she is dressed in green. —­See Canto I, p. 5.  She keeps the apples of immortality.  Jotunheim.  The abode of the Giants.  Loke.  The evil one.  “He is the sly treacherous father of lies.  In appearance he is beautiful and fair, but in his mind he is evil, and in his inclinations he is inconstant.  Notwithstanding his being ranked among the gods, he is the slanderer of the gods, the grand contriver of deceit and fraud, the reproach of gods and men.  Nobody renders him divine honors.  He surpasses all mortals in the arts of perfidy and craft.” -See Norse mythology, page 373.  Midgard.  The earth; the abode of man.  Midgard-serpent.  A child of Loke.  It was cast into the sea by Odin, and it grew till it reached around the whole world.  Mimer.  The wise giant keeper of the holy well of wisdom.  Morven’s hills.  Hills in the north of Scotland.  Muspelheim.  The abode of fire.  Muspel’s sons.  Flames.  Nanna.  Balder’s wife; goddess of flowers.  She died heartbroken at Balder’s death.  Nastrand (the shore of corpses).  Where the wicked are punished after Ragnarok.  Nidhug.  The dragon which lives in the fountain Hvergelmar and gnaws the root of Ygdrasil.  Niflheim.  The world of mists; the lower world; the place of punishment.  Norns.  The Fates.  They are three:  Urd, the past; Verdande, the present, and Skuld, the future.  They control the destinies of gods and men.  Oder.  Freyja’s husband.