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The poetic Edda

Note 23 — The Lament of Oddrun

Henry Adams Bellows translation

Murky wood: the forest which divided Atli’s realm from that of the Gjukungs is in Atlakvitha, 3, called Myrkwood. This hardly accords with the extraordinary geography of stanzas 28–29, or with the journey described in Guthrunarkvitha II, 36.

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