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The poetic Edda

Note 40 — The First Lay of Helgi Hundingsbane

Henry Adams Bellows translation

This stanza may be an interpolation in the dialogue passage. Allfather: Othin. We have no information regarding Gothmund’s career, but it looks as though Sinfjotli were drawing solely on his imagination for his taunts, whereas Gothmund’s insults have a basis in Sinfjotli’s previous life.

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