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The poetic Edda

Note 12 — The Ballad of Hamther

Henry Adams Bellows translation

Many editors assume the loss of a line after line 1. In several editions lines 2–3 are placed after line 2 of stanza 18. Hunnish: the word meant little more than “German”; cf. Guthrunarhvot, 3 and note.

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