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Poetic Edda

2.[1] ..............Hlathguth and Hervor,  Hlothver's children, And Olrun the Wise  Kjar's daughter was.
3.[2] ..............One in her arms  took Egil thenTo her bosom white,  the woman fair.
4.[3] Swan-White second,—  swan-feathers she wore,..............And her arms the third  of the sisters threwNext round Völund's  neck so white.
5.[4] There did they sit  for seven winters,In the eighth at last  came their longing again,(And in the ninth  did need divide them).The maidens yearned  for the murky wood,The fair young maids,  their fate to follow.

    and two more, or even six, with the additional stanza describing the theft of the swan-garments, after line 4. Myrkwood: a stock name for a magic, dark forest; cf. Lokasenna, 42.

  1. ↑ In the manuscript these two lines stand after stanza 16; editors have tried to fit them into various places, but the prose indicates that they belong here, with a gap assumed.
  2. ↑ In the manuscript these two lines follow stanza 1, with no gap indicated, and the first line marked as the beginning of a stanza. Many editors have combined them with stanza 4.
  3. ↑ No lacuna indicated in the manuscript; one editor fills the stanza out with a second line running: "Then to her breast Slagfith embraced."
  4. ↑ Line 3 looks like an interpolation, but line 5, identical with line 2 of stanza 1, may be the superfluous one.

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