One passage in Volundarkvida (str. 5), which hitherto has defied every effort at interpretation, shows that his skill was occupied with other magic things while he dwelt there. The passage reads: _Lucthi hann alla lindbauga vel_. The "lind"-rings in question, smithied of "red gold" (see the preceding lines in strophe 5), are, according to the prefix, _lind, linnr_, serpent-formed rings, which again are gand- (witchcraft) rings on account of the mysterious qualities ascribed to the serpent. _Lindbaugi_ is another form for _linnbaugi_, just as _lindból_ is another form for _linnból_. The part played by the serpent in the magic arts made it, when under the influence or in the possession of the magician, a _gand_, whence _linnr_, a serpent, could be used as a paraphrase of _gandr_, and _gandr_ could in turn, in the compound _Jörmungandr_, be used as an epithet for the Midgard-serpent. The rings which Volund "closed well together" are gand-rings. The very rope (_bast, böstr_--Volundarkvida, 7, 12) on which he hangs the seven hundred gand-rings he has finished seems to be a gand, an object of witchcraft, with which Volund can bind and from which he can release the wind. When Nidad's men surprised Volund in his sleep and bound him with this rope, he asks ambiguously who "had bound the wind" with it (str. 12). In two passages in Volundarkvida (str. 4, 8) he is called _vedreygr_, "the storm-observer," or "the storm-terrible." The word may have either meaning. That Volund for his purposes, like Rogner, made use of magic songs is manifest from Saxo (_Hist._, 323, 324). According to Saxo it was by means of Volund-Haquinus' magic song that the Volund-sword, wielded by Svipdag-Ericus, was able to conquer Thor's hammer and Halfdan's club.
Passing now to the passages where the name Rogner occurs in paraphrases, I would particularly emphasize what I have already demonstrated: that Haustlaung with this name refers to Thjasse; that poems of a more recent date than Haustlaung, and connected with the same celebrated song, apply it to the supposed descendants of Thjasse, Hakon Jarl and his kinsmen; that all of these paraphrases represent Rogner as a producer of storm, snow, and hail; and that Rogner made "wind-cars," was a "Regin of the motion of the feather-leaf" (the wing), and "one who pleased the swans." Therefore (_a_) Rogner is an epithet of Thjasse, and at the same time it designates Volund; (_b_) all that is said of Rogner, when the name in the paraphrases is a Thjasse-epithet, applies to Volund; (_c_) all that is said of Rogner, independently of paraphrases, applies to Volund.