VERSE NOT INCLUDED IN
THE POETIC EDDA
BY
LEE. M. HOLLANDER
NEW YORK: MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
1936
COPYRIGHT 1936
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
PUBLISHED 1936
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO
ALICE K. WOODWARD
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Acknowledgements are due to the American-Scandinavian
Foundation for permission to reprint - slightly
different form - the translation of the Biarkamol and The
Legends of Denmark and the American-Scandinavian Review.
L.M.H.
CONTENTS
Introduction....................................................................xi
The Old Lay of Biarki (Biarkamol hin fornu)...................3
The Lay of Ingiald..........................................................12
The Lay of Vikar (Vikarsbalkr........................................18
Hialmar's Death Song.....................................................26
The Lay of Hervor (Hervararkvitha)...............................29
The Lay of Hloth and Angantyr or
The Battle of The Huns...................................................36
The Lay of Instein...........................................................46
Hildibrand's Death Song.................................................52
The Lay of Harold (Haraldskvaethi or Hrafnsmol),
by Thorbiorn Hornlofi....................................................56
The Lay of Eric (Eiriksmol).............................................63
The Lay of Hakon (Hakonarmol),
by Eyvind Finnsson skaldaspillir.....................................66
The Song of the Valkyries (Darratharlidth).....................72
/The Curse of Busla (Busluboen).....................................76
The Oath of Truce (Tryggthamol)...................................80
The Riddles of King Heithrek (Heithreksgatur)...............85
The Sun Song (Solarlidth).............................................101