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The poetic Edda

Note 2 — The Second Lay of Helgi Hundingsbane

Henry Adams Bellows translation

The manuscript indicates line 2 as the beginning of the stanza, the copyist evidently regarding line 1 as prose. This has caused various rearrangements in the different editions. Blind: leader of the band sent to capture Helgi.

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