[PW] Well, I'll Swan...

[John P. Dyson]

Even Flood wrote:

>> To thoroughly confuse everyone, the norse poem "The lay of Volund" in
>> the elder Edda just states:
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>>  16. His teeth he shows, when the sword he sees, and Bodvild's ring he
>> recognizes: threatening are his eyes as a glistening serpent's: let be
>> severed his sinews' strength; and set him then in Sævarstad.
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>> In other words, it does not say which sinews, the achilles or the hamstring.



                       Lovesong of Völund Smed and Hervör

                             She rubs his gammon,
                             He strokes her flitch,
                             then, feeling rasher,
                             off they mitch.
                             Their houghs entwined,
                             their tendons taut,
                             an Eddic snap....
                             ... hamstrung and caught.

John Dyson