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Full many were the horns,  till the men had drunk deep;..............Then the mates made ready  their beds for resting.
9.[1] Wise was Kostbera,  and cunning in rune-craft,The letters would she read  by the light of the fire;But full quickly her tongue  to her palate clave,So strange did they seem  that their meaning she saw not.
10.[2] Full soon then his bed  came Hogni to seek,..............The clear-souled one dreamed,  and her dream she kept not,To the warrior the wise one  spake when she wakened:
11.[3] "Thou wouldst go hence, Hogni,  but heed my counsel,—

    3): "Then the warriors rose,  and to slumber made ready." The manuscript indicates line 4 as beginning a new stanza, and some editions make a separate stanza out of lines 1-2. Others suggest the loss of a line after line 4.

  1. ↑ The manuscript does not indicate line 1 as the beginning of a stanza; cf. note on stanza 8.
  2. ↑ Some editions combine this stanza with lines 1-2 of stanza 11. The manuscript indicates no gap. Grundtvig adds (line 2): "But sleep to the woman  so wise came little."
  3. ↑ Some editions make a separate stanza out of lines 1-2, or combine them with stanza 10, and combine lines 3-4 with stanza

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