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The poetic Edda

Note 37 — The Ballad of Vafthruthnir

Henry Adams Bellows translation

Snorri quotes this stanza. Hræsvelg (“the Corpse-Eater”): on this giant in eagle’s form cf. Voluspo, 50, and Skirnismol, 27.

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