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The poetic Edda

Note 29 — The First Lay of Helgi Hundingsbane

Henry Adams Bellows translation

The manuscript indicates no gap, and some editions combine the stanza with lines 3–4 of stanza 28. Sisters of Kolga: the waves, Kolga (“The Gold”) being one of the daughters of the sea-god, Ægir. As the Volsungasaga says, “Now there was a great storm.”

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