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The poetic Edda

Note 56 — The First Lay of Helgi Hundingsbane

Henry Adams Bellows translation

Wound-givers: probably this means “Valkyries,” but there is considerable doubt as to the original word. Horse, etc.: i.e., the wolf (because giantesses customarily had wolves for their steeds) ate corpses (the food of birds of prey).

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