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Atlamol

Sad were their garments,  and thee were they seeking;They bade thee come swiftly  forth to their benches,And nothing, methinks,  could the Norns avail thee."
  Gunnar spake:26.[1] "Too late is thy speaking,  for so is it settled;From the faring I turn not,  the going is fixed,Though likely it is  that our lives shall be short."
27.[2] Then bright shone the morning,  the men all were ready,They said, and yet each  would the other hold back;Five were the warriors,  and their followers allBut twice as many,—  their minds knew not wisdom.
28.[3] Snævar and Solar,  they were sons of Hogni,Orkning was he called  who came with the others,

    flow, since thou hast dreamed of rivers, and when we go to the fields, often the chaff rises above our feet."

    The meaning of line 4 is uncertain, but apparently it refers to the guardian spirits or lesser Norns (cf. Fafnismol, 12-13 and notes).

  1. ↑ Possibly a line has been lost from this stanza.
  2. ↑ Five: Gunnar, Hogni, and the three mentioned in stanza 28.
  3. ↑ Perhaps a line has been lost before line 1; Grundtvig supplies: "Gunnar and Hogni,  the heirs twain of Gjuki." Snævar (the manuscript here has "Snevar"), Solar and Orkning

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