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The poetic Edda

Note 23 — The Song of Rig

Henry Adams Bellows translation

Bring: the word literally means “drove in a wagon”—a mark of the bride’s social status. Snör: “Daughter-in-Law.” Bugge, followed by several editors, maintains that line 4 was wrongly interpolated here from a missing stanza describing the marriage of Kon.

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