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The poetic Edda

Note 88 — The Ballad of the High One

Henry Adams Bellows translation

This stanza follows stanza 89 in the manuscript. Many editors have changed the order, for while stanza 89 is pretty clearly an interpolation wherever it stands, it seriously interferes with the sense if it breaks in between 87 and 88.

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