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The poetic Edda

Note 35 — The Greenland Ballad of Atli

Henry Adams Bellows translation

The manuscript indicates line 4 as beginning a new stanza, and many editions combine it with stanza 36, some of them assuming the loss of a line from stanza 35. In the Volsungasaga paraphrase the second half of line 4 is made a part of Vingi’s speech: “Better had ye left this undone.”

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