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The poetic Edda

Note 51 — The Ballad of Grimnir

Henry Adams Bellows translation

Again the poem returns to the direct action, Othin addressing the terrified Geirröth. The manuscripts show no lacuna. Some editors supply a second line from paper manuscripts: “Greatly by me art beguiled.”

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