Note 13 — INCANTATION OF HERVOR.[13]
Reading edition
Page 66. Incantation of Hervor.
This is not a translation of the celebrated Icelandic lyric, which consists of a dialogue between Hervor and Argantyr; but merely a sketch of what the heroic daughter may be supposed to have said, when trying the power of the spells of poesy to wake her ancestor from the dead, and compel him to give up his sword, which had been buried with him. The sword in question had been made by the dwarfs, and was taken by Angrim, the father of Argantyr, from the grandson of Odin.