Note 33 — The Wise-Woman’s Prophecy
Henry Adams Bellows translation
The lines in this and the following stanza have been combined in various ways by editors, lacunæ having been freely conjectured, but the manuscript version seems clear enough. The brother of Baldr: Vali, whom Othin begot expressly to avenge Baldr’s death. The day after his birth he fought and slew Hoth.