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The poetic Edda

Note 103 — The Ballad of the High One

Henry Adams Bellows translation

With this stanza the subject changes abruptly, and apparently the virtues of fair speech, mentioned in the last three lines, account for the introduction, from what source cannot be known, of the story of Othin and the mead of song (stanzas 104–110).

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