Note 576 — Chapter V · THE DIFFERENCING ELEMENTS OF COMMUNAL POETRY (continued 2)
Reading edition
The phrase for a capable person in incantation is found for Germanic usage in the Merseburg Charm, here said of Wodan himself,—sô hê unola conda; in Anglo-Saxon the same phrase is used for a skilled poet: se þe cuðe, Béow., 90; and in Old Saxon for a wise man: én gifrôdðt man the sô filo konsta wisaro wordo, Hêliand, 208.