Save only to her | in whose arms I lie,
Or who else my sister is.
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NOTES
[1]. This stanza is quoted by Snorri, the second line being omitted in most of the Prose Edda manuscripts.
[2]. Probably the first and second lines had originally nothing to do with the third and fourth, the last two not referring to host or guest, but to the general danger of backing one’s views with the sword. [[30]]
[6]. Lines 5 and 6 appear to have been added to the stanza. [[31]]
[12]. Some editors have combined this stanza in various ways with the last two lines of stanza 11, as in the manuscript the first two lines of the latter are abbreviated, and, if they belong there at all, are presumably identical with the first two lines of stanza 10. [[32]]
[13]. The heron: the bird of forgetfulness, referred to in line 1. Gunnloth: the daughter of the giant Suttung, from whom Othin won the mead of poetry. For this episode see stanzas 104–110.