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The poetic Edda

Note 34 — The Ballad of Skirnir

Henry Adams Bellows translation

Most editors reject line 3 as spurious, and some also reject line 6. Lines 2 and 3 may have been expanded out of a single line running approximately “Ye gods and Suttung’s sons.” Suttung: concerning this giant cf. Hovamol, 104 and note.

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