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The poetic Edda

Note 29 — The Lay of Völund

Henry Adams Bellows translation

The manuscript does not name Völund as the speaker before line 3; Vigfusson again inserts his convenient line, “Then Völund spake, | sagest of elves.” A few editions combine lines 3–4 with the two lines of stanza 30.

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