The Poetic Edda Index

Hovamol
[163. Some editors have combined these two lines with stanza 164. Others have assumed that the gap follows the first
half-line, making "so that-from me" the end of the stanza.
164. This stanza is almost certainly an interpolation, and seems to have been introduced after the list of charms and the
Loddfafnismol (stanzas 111-138) were combined in a single poem, for there is no other apparent excuse for the reference to
Loddfafnir at this point. The words "if thou mightest get them" are a conjectural emendation.
165. This stanza is almost totally obscure. The third and fourth lines look like interpolations.]
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