sentences:  The title of the poem is given in stanza 81, and no doubt derives from the allusion to the Sun at the beginning of the stanzas 39-45, all beginning with "Sól ek sá ..." "The Sun I saw ...".The first stanzas (1-24) give "examples" of the lives, death and fate of different, anonymous persons.Stanzas 25-32 are "advice", similar to those in "Hávamál", while 33-38 is a "psychological biography" of the narrator's life.