13. The Solar Antler in Sólarljóð

In light of my findings so far concerning mythological traditions about solar stags, the relationship between antlers and swords, and the theft and recovery of sunlight, two stanzas from near the end of Sólarljóð merit analysis. At least the first of these stanzas concerns a buried, probably solar antler. In my view, both stanzas concern this antler and preserve, or reinvent, a heathen myth about a dwarf’s illicit storage of a rune-inscribed weapon originally symbolic of sunshine, which was l.