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Hovamol

163.[1] A seventeenth I know,  so that seldom shall go A maiden young from me;...............................
164.[2] Long these songs  thou shalt, Loddfafnir, Seek in vain to sing;Yet good it were  if thou mightest get them, Well, if thou wouldst them learn, Help, if thou hadst them.
165.[3] An eighteenth I know,  that ne'er will I tell To maiden or wife of man,—The best is what none  but one's self doth know, So comes the end of the songs,—Save only to her  in whose arms I lie, Or who else my sister is.
  1. ↑ Some editors have combined these two lines with stanza 164. Others have assumed that the gap follows the first half-line, making "so that—from me" the end of the stanza.
  2. ↑ This stanza is almost certainly an interpolation, and seems to have been introduced after the list of charms and the Loddfafnismol (stanzas 111-138) were combined in a single poem, for there is no other apparent excuse for the reference to Loddfafnir at this point. The words "if thou mightest get them" are a conjectural emendation.
  3. ↑ This stanza is almost totally obscure. The third and fourth lines look like interpolations.

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