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The poetic Edda

Note 10 — The Third Lay of Guthrun

Henry Adams Bellows translation

The word “requited” in line 4 is omitted in the manuscript, but it is clear that some such word was intended. The punishment of casting a culprit into a bog to be drowned was particularly reserved for women, and is not infrequently mentioned in the sagas.

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