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The poetic Edda

Note 10 — The Second Lay of Helgi Hundingsbane

Henry Adams Bellows translation

Helgi’s meaning in lines 3–4 is that, although he has already declared himself an Ylfing (stanza 8, line 1), there are many heroes of that race, and he does not understand how Sigrun knows him to be Helgi.

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