The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs Glossary

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs Glossary

abasement

casting down, defeat

ark

a box for treasures

bale

disaster, destruction, death

bath of the swan

the sea

befall

happen

bickering

stormy, struggling

burg

a town, a fortress

carles

peasants

churl

a grudging, ungracious man

dastard

a coward

doom

a sentence, verdict

dwindle

to grow less

eld

old age

flaw

defect, fault

fleck

spot, mark

folk

people

franklin

a well-to-do farmer, one who is not merely a hired servant

heave

to rise and fall

hireling

a servant

kin

family relations

lay

a song

leeches

doctors

lore

learning, knowledge

peers

equals in age and rank

quell

to stop, make to cease

reck

to notice, care about

reek

smoke rising from a fire

rue

to regret, to find a cause of woe

ruth

pity, regret

sate

satisfy to the full

scoff

an object of mockery

skerry

a rocky island near the coast

slot

the track left by a wild animal

sooth

truth

to-morn

tomorrow morning

venom

poison

wane

to fade away, grow dim

wary

careful, ever on the watch

weed

dress

wot

to know

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