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The poetic Edda

Note 133 — The Ballad of the High One

Henry Adams Bellows translation

Many editors reject the last two lines of this stanza as spurious, putting the first two lines at the end of the preceding stanza. Others, attaching lines 3 and 4 to stanza 132, insert as the first two lines of stanza 133 two lines from a late paper manuscript, running:

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