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The poetic Edda

Note 15 — The First Lay of Helgi Hundingsbane

Henry Adams Bellows translation

No gap indicated in the manuscript, but almost certainly something has been lost mentioning more specifically the coming of the Valkyries. The lightning which accompanies them suggests again their identification with the clouds (cf. Helgakvitha Hjorvarthssonar, 28).

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