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The poetic Edda

Note 6 — The Ballad of Grimnir

Henry Adams Bellows translation

Valaskjolf (“the Shelf of the Slain”): Othin’s home, in which is his watch-tower, Hlithskjolf. Gering identifies this with Valhall, and as that is mentioned in stanza 8, he believes stanza 6 to be an interpolation.

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