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The poetic Edda

Note 96 — The Ballad of the High One

Henry Adams Bellows translation

Here begins the passage (stanzas 96–102) illustrating the falseness of woman by the story of Othin’s unsuccessful love-affair with Billing’s daughter. Of this person we know nothing beyond what is here told, but the story needs little comment.

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