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The poetic Edda

Note 28 — The Ballad of Svipdag

Henry Adams Bellows translation

Gastropnir: “Guest-Crusher.” Leirbrimir’s (“Clay-Giant’s”) limbs: a poetic circumlocution for “clay”; cf. the description of the making of earth from the body of the giant Ymir, Vafthruthnismol, 21.

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