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Poetic Edda

With magic Oddrun  and mightily Oddrun
Chanted for Borgny  potent charms.

7.[1] At last were born  a boy and girl,
Son and daughter  of Hogni's slayer;
Then speech the woman  so weak began,
Nor said she aught  ere this she spake:

8.[2] "So may the holy  ones thee help,
Frigg and Freyja  and favoring gods,
As thou hast saved me  from sorrow now."

  Oddrun spake:
9.[3] "I came not hither  to help thee thus
Because thou ever  my aid didst earn;
I fulfilled the oath  that of old I swore,
That aid to all  I should ever bring,
(When they shared the wealth  the warriors had)."

    Charms: cf. Sigrdrifumol, 8.

  1. ↑ Hogni's slayer: obviously Vilmund, but unless he was the one of Atli's followers who actually cut out Hogni's heart (cf. Drap Niflunga), there is nothing else to connect him with Hogni's death. Sijmons emends the line to read "Born of the sister  of Hogni's slayer."
  2. ↑ Regarding Frigg as a goddess of healing cf. Svipdagsmol, 52, note. Regarding Freyja as the friend of lovers cf. Grimnismol, 14, note. A line is very possibly missing from this stanza.
  3. ↑ The manuscript does not name the speaker. In line 2 the word rendered "earn" is omitted in the manuscript, but nearly all editions have supplied it. Line 5 is clearly either interpolated or out of place. It may be all that is left of a stanza which stood between stanzas 15 and 16, or it may belong in stanza 12.

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