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The poetic Edda

Note 36 — The Second, or Old, Lay of Guthrun

Henry Adams Bellows translation

The stanza describes the journey to Atli’s home, and sundry unsuccessful efforts have been made to follow the travellers through Germany and down the Danube. Foreign women: slaves. Line 5, which the manuscript marks as beginning a stanza, is probably spurious.

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