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Evje signifies a stream with a slow current. ↩ + 

Norwegian peasants bear the same name as their estates. As there are no nobles in Norway, the farmers or owners of estates occupy a much higher social position than in Germany. ↩ + 

The Skydo-Bauern along the principal roads supply travellers with beds and food. ↩ + 

A district in northern Norway. ↩ + 

A boat with three oars on each side. ↩ + 

A long pole, with a hooked iron spike at the end of it, for spearing Kvejte or hallibut with. ↩ + 

A large boat with five oars on each side, used for winter fishing in northern Norway. ↩ + 

The chief port in those parts. ↩ + 

Hin Karen = “the devil.” “Karen” is the Danish “Karl.” ↩ + 

The Klör, or clews, were rings in the corner of the sail to fasten it down by in a strong wind. Setja ei Klo = “take in the sail a clew.” Setja tvo, or tri Klör = “take it in two or three clews,” I.e., diminish it still further as the wind grew stronger. ↩ + 

A demon peculiar to the north Norwegian coast. It rides the seas in a half-boat. Compare Icelandic draugr. ↩ + 

See note 6. ↩ + 

Være med hu, Mor. Hu is the Danish Hun. ↩ + 

This untranslatable word is a derivative of the Icelandic Gandr, and means magic of the black or malefic sort. ↩ + 

The northernmost province of Norway, right within the Arctic circle. ↩ + 

The huts peculiar to the Norwegian Finns. ↩ + 

To sing songs (here magic songs), as the Finns do. Possibly derived from the Finnish verb joikun, which means monotonous chanting. ↩ + 

The Norse Kverva Syni is to delude the sight by magic spells. ↩ + 

I.e., the boat he (Jack) wanted to build. ↩ + 

A mountain between Sweden and Norway. ↩ + 

I.e., the boat he would be building. ↩ + 

Meaning that he would never have a chance of building the new sort of boat that his mind was bent on. ↩ + 

The Finn’s hut. ↩ + 

Tvinde Knuder. When the Finn tied one magic knot, he raised a gale, so two knots would give a tempest. ↩ + 

I.e., where the Gan-Finn let out the wind. ↩ + 

An eight-oared boat. ↩ + 

A place where seabirds’ eggs abound. ↩ + 

A contraction of Sexæring, i.e., a boat with six oars. ↩ + 

Eng. dialect word (the Norse is staur) meaning impediments of any kind. ↩ + 

Daudvatn (Dan. Dödvand), water in which there is no motion. ↩ + 

Lille Jule-aften, i.e., the day before Christmas Eve (Jule-aften). ↩ + 

A fishing-station, where fishermen assemble periodically. ↩ + 

I.e., at nothing⁠—a house having usually only four walls. ↩ + 

See “The Fisherman and the Draug.” ↩ + 

See “The Fisherman and the Draug.” ↩ + 

A small two-oared boat. ↩ + 

Hulder, huldre, a name for anything elfin or gnomish. Compare Icel. Hulda, a hiding, covering. It implies the invisibility of the elfin race. ↩ + 

Ligorm, serpent that eats the dead. If we have Lichfield and lichgate, we may have lichworm too. ↩ + 

A long slow dance, and the music to it. ↩ + 

A Sæter (Swed. säter) is a remote pasturage with huts upon it, where the cows are tended and dairy produce prepared for market and home use during the summer. ↩ + 

A country dance of a boisterous jig-like sort. ↩ + 

A long wooden trumpet. ↩ + 

A giantess, the wife of the mountain gnome, who rules in the Dovrefeld. ↩ + 

I.e., the general dealer’s wife. ↩ + 

Thin cakes that can be doubled in two and eaten with syrup. ↩ + 

Boxes containing provisions for voyages or journeys. ↩ + 

Flat cakes broken up with butter. ↩ + 