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The English and Scottish popular ballads, volume 1 (of 5)

Note 400 — 46 CAPTAIN WEDDERBURN'S COURTSHIP

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Vigfusson objects to Thor being the interlocutor, though that is the name in the MS., because cunning does not suit Thor's blunt character, and proposes Odin instead. "May be the dwarf first met Thor (Wingthor), whereupon Woden (Wingi) came up." Corpus Poeticum Boreale, I, 81.

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