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Poetic Edda

17.[1] Rig knew well  wise words to speak,Soon in the midst  of the room he sat,And on either side  the others were.
18.[2] Then took Amma  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .The vessels full  with the fare she set,Calf's flesh boiled  was the best of the dainties.
19.[3] Rig knew well  wise words to speak,He rose from the board,  made ready to sleep;Soon in the bed  himself did he lay,And on either side  the others were.
20.[4] Thus was he there  for three nights long,Then forward he went  on the midmost way,And so nine months  were soon passed by.
21.[5] A son bore Amma,  with water they sprinkled him,Karl they named him;  in a cloth she wrapped him,He was ruddy of face,  and flashing his eyes.
  1. ↑ The manuscript jumps from stanza 17, line 1, to stanza 19, line 2. Bugge points out that the copyist's eye was presumably led astray by the fact that 17, 1, and 19, 1, were identical. Lines 2-3 of 17 are supplied from stanzas 3 and 29.
  2. ↑ I have followed Bugge's conjectural construction of the missing stanza, taking lines 2 and 3 from stanzas 31 and 4.
  3. ↑ The manuscript marks line 2 as the beginning of a stanza.
  4. ↑ The manuscript omits line 2, supplied by analogy with stanza 6
  5. ↑

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