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Oddrunargratr

  Borgny spake:10.[1][2] "Wild art thou, Oddrun,  and witless now,That so in hatred  to me thou speakest;I followed thee  where thou didst fare,As we had been born  of brothers twain."
  Oddrun spake:11.[1][3] "I remember the evil  one eve thou spakest,When a draught I gave  to Gunnar then;Thou didst say that never  such a deedBy maid was done  save by me alone."
12.[1][4] Then the sorrowing woman  sat her downTo tell the grief  of her troubles great.
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 In the manuscript the order is as follows: 12; 13; 14; 15, 3-4; 10; 11; 16; 17; 18; 19, 1-2; 15, 1-2; 19, 3-4; 20. The changes made here, following several of the editions, are: (a) the transposition of stanzas 10-11, which are clearly dialogue, out of the body of the lament to a position just before it; (b) the transposition of lines 1-2 of stanza 15 to their present position from the middle of stanza 19.
  2. ↑ The manuscript does not name the speaker; cf. note on stanzas 10-20.
  3. ↑ The manuscript does not name the speaker; cf. note on stanzas 10-20. The word rendered "evil" in line 1 is a conjectural addition. Apparently Borgny was present at Atli's court while the love affair between Oddrun and Gunnar was in progress, and criticised Oddrun for her part in it. A draught, etc.: apparently in reference to a secret meeting of the lovers.
  4. ↑ In the manuscript this stanza follows stanza 9; cf. note on stanzas 10-20. No gap is indicated, but something has presumably been lost. Grundtvig supplies as a first line: "The maid her evil  days remembered," and inserts as a second line line 5 of stanza 9.

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