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The poetic Edda

Note 41 — The First Lay of Helgi Hundingsbane

Henry Adams Bellows translation

No gap indicated in the manuscript; some editors combine the two lines with stanza 40, some regard them as the first instead of the last lines of a separate stanza, and some assume the lacuna here indicated. Sogunes (“Saga’s Cape”): of the goddess Saga little is known; cf. Grimnismol, 7.

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