Anglo-Saxon Run-poem------------------Classic of the Southern Mountains

29. "loathsome" corpse [cf. "laidly (loathly) worm"]

1:1 "worms"

28. "eel"

1:3 "in its waterways ... giant snout-snakes"

27. "yew"-tree

1:4 "wood being split"

26. "ash"-tree

1:7 "curious trees"

25. "gannet"

1:8 "a bird ... like a pigeon"

24. DAEG: cf. Svip-DAG, who arrived at the places of a rooster and a hound

2:1 "animal ... which ... has cock spurs ... like a dog"

23. "inheritance"

2:2 Mt. Long-right [heirs long for their right to inherit?]

22. Ing, ancestor of the Ingling-s (English)

2:5 Mt. Wary-father

21. "lake"

2:7 "the great Lake"

20. "everyone shall betray another"

2:8 Mt. Success [acquired by betraying others?]

19. "horse"

2:11 Mt. Helper-hook [the stallion Svadil-fari was helping a rock-giant]

18. "beareth shoots without seeds" [i.e., is immortal]

2:13 "it can't be killed"

17. "one of the guiding signs [constellations] ... through ... night" (the "Big Dipper" ?)

2:14 Mt. Roar-spoon

16. "a sail"

2:15 Mt. Hoard-cry [stashing-sites of hoards being on remote desert-isle, reached by sailing ?]

15. "in the fens"

2:16 the river Marsh-change

14. "chesspiece" (?)

2:17 "gaming-stones"

13. "rough on the outside"

3:2 "rhinoceros and elephant" [both pachyderms, "thick-skinned" and rough-skinned ?]

12. "to produce ... fruits"

3:3 "provides drink and food from its own self."

11. "ice"

3:4 the river Drift [icebergs drift ?]

10. "oppresseth"

3:6 Mt. Wrong

9. "it becometh water"

3:7 "a great amount of water"

8. WYNN [cognate with Skt. VANA "blown"]

3:10 "the high northeast wind comes from it."

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-------------------------------------------------------------------Classic of the Western Mountains

7. "generosity"

1:1 Mt. Money-come

6. "torch"

1:2 Mt. Pinecone [torches are made from pine and other resinous wood ?]

5. "riding is ... very strenuous to one who sitteth on top of a ... horse" [because the jostling, as if wagging one's buttocks]

1:2 "the wagtail"

4. "mouth is the source of every statement"

1:3 "There is a serpent here." [cf. Ladon, the serpent speaking 100 languages]

3. "thorn"

1:4 "Its trees are mostly thorn"

2. "aurochs"

1:4 "Its animals are mostly wild buffalo."

1. "fee" [cognate with Skt. pas`u "livestock", Lat. pecu "cattle"]

1:6 "oxen"

Anne Birrell (transl.): The Classic of Mountains and Seas. Penguin Books, London, 1999. pp. 1 to 14