The Poetic Edda Index

Sigrdrifumol
where they do not fit particularly well, in place of the two lines with which the eleventh counsel originally ended. Perhaps
they formed part of the stanza of warning which evidently preceded Brynhild's speech in stanza 20. In the Volsungasaga
they are paraphrased at the end of Brynhild's long speech of advice (stanzas 20-37), and are immediately followed by the
prose passage given in the note on stanza 21. It seems likely, therefore, {footnote p. 401} that the paper manuscripts have
preserved all of the so-called Sigrdrifumol which was contained in the lost section of Regius, with the possible exception
of these two concluding stanzas, and these may very well have been given only in the form of a prose note, though it is
practically certain that at one time they existed in verse form.]
{p. 401}
{p. 402}
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