Henry Adams Bellows · stanza 109
1923The day that followed, the frost-giants came,Some word of Hor to win,(And into the hall of Hor;)Of Bolverk they asked, were he back midst the gods,Or had Suttung slain him there?Hávamál · The mead of poetry
Henry Adams Bellows stanza 109
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Benjamin Thorpe · stanza 110
1866On the day followingcame the Hrim-thursar,to learn something of the High One,in the High One’s hall:after Bölverk they inquired,whether he with the gods were come,or Suttung had destroyed him?Olive Bray · stanza 107
1908Old Norse
Ens hindra dags gengu hrímþursar[Háva ráþs at fregna]Háva höllu í;at Bölverki spurþu, ef vǽri meþ böndum kominneþa hefþi Suttungr of soit.English translation
Came forth, next day, the dread Frost Giants,and entered the High One’s Hall:they asked—was the Baleworker back mid the Powers,or had Suttung slain him below?107, line 2.— Mh. Gv. Mk. G. S. J. agree that this line is an interpolation, as it spoils both sense and metre.107.—Baleworker, the name which Odin had given himself in disguise.Source
The Poetic Edda: Translated from the Icelandic with an Introduction and Notes
Hávamál, translated by Henry Adams Bellows, in The Poetic Edda (1923). Public-domain transcription sourced from Project Gutenberg ebook 73533.
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- Henry Adams Bellows
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