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The poetic Edda

Note 49 — The Ballad of Vafthruthnir

Henry Adams Bellows translation

Mogthrasir (“Desiring Sons”): not mentioned elsewhere in the Eddic poems, or by Snorri. The maidens: apparently Norns, like the “giant-maids” in Voluspo, 8. These Norns, however, are kindly to men.

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