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Poetic Edda

  Andvari spake:2.[1] "Andvari am I,  and Oin my father, In many a fall have I fared;An evil Norn  in olden days Doomed me in waters to dwell."
  Loki spake:3.[2] "Andvari, say,  if thou seekest still To live in the land of men,What payment is set  for the sons of men Who war with lying words?"
  Andvari spake:4.[3] "A mighty payment  the men must make Who in Vathgelmir's waters wade;On a long road lead  the lying words That one to another utters."

Loki saw all the gold that Andvari had. But when

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  1. ↑ Snorri quotes this stanza. The name of the speaker is not given in the manuscripts. Oin: nothing further is known of Andvari's father. Norn: cf. Voluspo, 20.
  2. ↑ Stanzas 3-4 may well be fragments of some other poem. Certainly Loki's question does not fit the situation, and the passage looks like an extract from some such poem as Vafthruthnismol. In Regius the phrase "Loki spake" stands in the middle of line 1.
  3. ↑ The manuscript does not name the speaker. Vathgelmir ("Raging to Wade"): a river not elsewhere mentioned, but cf. Voluspo, 39.
  4. ↑ Prose. Snorri says Andvari's ring had the power to create new gold. In this it resembled Baldr's ring, Draupnir; c.f. Skirnismol, 21 and note.

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