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The poetic Edda

Note 5 — The First Lay of Guthrun

Henry Adams Bellows translation

Some editors assume the loss of a line, after either line 1 or line 3. I prefer to believe that here and in stanza 10 the poet knew exactly what he was doing, and that both stanzas are correct.

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