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The poetic Edda

Note 43 — The Ballad of Skirnir

Henry Adams Bellows translation

The superscription is lacking in Regius. Snorri quotes this one stanza in his prose paraphrase, Gylfaginning, chapter 37. The two versions are substantially the same, except that Snorri makes the first line read, “Long is one night, | long is the second.”

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