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The poetic Edda

Note 30 — The Ballad of Alvis

Henry Adams Bellows translation

Snorri quotes this stanza in the Skaldskaparmal. The various Prose Edda manuscripts differ considerably in naming the gods, the giants, etc. Lightless: some manuscripts have “The Unsorrowing.”

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