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The poetic Edda

Note 9 — The Lay of Völund

Henry Adams Bellows translation

Some editors combine the first two lines with parts of stanza 8, and the last two with the first half of stanza 10. Njars: there has been much, and inconclusive, discussion as to what this name means; probably it applies to a semi-mythical people somewhere vaguely in “the East.”

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