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Poetic Edda

But with treacherous wiles  must I now betray thee:The day has caught thee, dwarf!(Now the sun shines here in the hall.)"

    Concerning the inability of the dwarfs to endure sunlight, which turns them into stone, cf. stanza 16 and note. Line 5 may be spurious.

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