_To-morn_, tomorrow morning.
_Train_, to entice, bring by trickery.
_Tree-hole_, tree-trunk.
_Troth_, a promise, generally a promise of marriage.
_Troth-plight_, promised in marriage.
_Trow_, to believe.
_Twi-bill_, an axe with a double-edged blade. It was the weapon which
Odin carried when he appeared to men.
_Unbitted_, never taught to obey the bit, not broken in.
_Unholpen_, unhelped. Holpen is the old form of the p.p. helped.
_Unstable_, changeable, not lasting.
_Uttermost horn_, the signal for Ragnarok. It was believed that
Heimdall, one of the gods who guarded a bridge called Bifrost between
Asgard and the earth, would blow a blast on his horn which would be
the sign for the beginning of the great battle between the gods and
the powers of evil.
_Venom_, poison.
_Wall-nook_, an opening or bend in a wall.
_Wallow_, to roll about upon the ground, e.g. "Fafnir, the wallower
on the gold."
_Wan_, pale, pinched with suffering.
_Wane_, to fade away, grow dim.
_Warding-walls_, guarding-walls. "_Warding walls of death_," man's
armour that keeps death from him.
_Wards_, keepers, e.g. door-wards; cf. warden. Fafnir is called
"the gold-warden."
_War-wand_, a sword.
_Wary_, careful, ever on the watch.
_Waste_, to destroy, to sweep away, e.
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