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THE POETIC EDDA Translated With an Introduction and Explanatory Notes BY LEE M. HOLLANDER, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Germanic Languages in the University of Texas PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN University of Texas Press 19 2 8 Copyright, 1928 By The University of Texas CONTENTS General Introduction________________________________ vii The Prophecy of the Seeress _____________________ 1 The Sayings of Hór ______________________________ 17 The Lay of Vafthrúthnir _________________________ 48 The Lay of Grimnir______________________________ 61 The Lay of Skirnir _______________________________ 75 The Lay of Hárbarth _____________________________ 85 The Lay of Hymir ________________________________ 97 The Flyting of Loki ______________________________ 105 The Lay of Thrym_________________________________ 121 The Lay of Alvis __________________________________ 127 Baldr’s Dreams ____________________________________ 136 The Lay of R ig____________________________________ 140 The Lay of Hyndla ________________________________ 150 The Short ‘Seeress’ Prophecy’ ____________________ 159 The Lay of Svipdag________________________________ 163 The Spell of Gróa __________________________ 165 The Lay of Fiolsvith ________________________ 168 The Lay of Grotti _________________________________ 179 The Lay of Volund ________________________________ 186 The Helgi Lays ----------------------------------------------------- 196 The Lay of Helgi Hiorvarthsson _____________ 197 The First Lay of Helgi the Hunding-Slayer___ 211 The Second Lay of Helgi the Hunding-Slayer__ 223 Sinfiotli’s Death ___________________________________ 238 The Prophecy of Gripir ----------------------------- 240 The Lay of Regin _________________________________ 252 The Lay of Fáfnir ___________________________ __— 261 The Lay of Sigrdrifa ---------------------------------------------- 273 The Great Lacuna____________________________________ 283 Fragment of a Sigurth Lay ------------------------------------ 285 The First Lay of Guthrún __________________________ 290 For a note on pronunciation see p. 386. The Short Lay of Sigurth -------------------------------------- 295 Brynhild’s Ride to Hel ------------------------------------------- 307 The Fall of the Niflungs___________________________ 311 The Second (or Old) Lay of Guthrún ______________ 312 The Third Lay of Guthrún ________________________ 321 The Plaint of Oddrún ____________________________ 324 The Lay of Atli ___________________________________ 331 The Greenlandish Lay of Atli ______________________ 343 Guthrún’s Lament _________________________________ 369 The Lay of Hamthir _____________________ 375 The Catalogue of Dwarfs __________________________ 383 Abbreviations______________________________________ 385 Index ______________________________________________ 387

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