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Poetic Edda

35.[1] "Hrimgrimnir is he,  the giant who shall have thee In the depth by the doors of Hel;To the frost-giants' halls  each day shalt thou fare, Crawling and craving in vain, (Crawling and having no hope.)
36.[2] "Base wretches there  by the root of the tree Will hold for thee horns of filth;A fairer drink  shalt thou never find, Maid, to meet thy wish, (Maid, to meet my wish.)
37.[3] "I write thee a charm  and three runes therewith, Longing and madness and lust;But what I have writ  I may yet unwrite If I find a need therefor."
  1. ↑ Most editors combine lines 1-2 with stanza 36 (either with the first two lines thereof or the whole stanza), as lines 3-5 stand in the manuscript after line 2 of stanza 30. Hrimgrimnir ("The Frost-Shrouded"): a giant not elsewhere mentioned. Line 5, as a repetition of line 4, is probably a later addition.
  2. ↑ For the combination of this stanza with the preceding one, cf. note on stanza 35. The scribe clearly did not consider that the stanza began with line 1, as the first word thereof in the manuscript does not begin with a capital letter and has no period before it. The first word of line 3, however, is so marked. Line 5 may well be spurious.
  3. ↑ Again the scribe seems to have been uncertain as to the stanza divisions. This time the first line is preceded by a period, but begins with a small letter. Many editors have made line 2

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