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The poetic Edda

Note 25 — The Ballad of Hamther

Henry Adams Bellows translation

Some editors mark line 1 as an interpolation. The manuscript marks line 4 as beginning a new stanza. As in the story told by Jordanes, Hamther and Sorli succeed in wounding Jormunrek (here they cut off his hands and feet), but do not kill him.

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