 Henry Adams Bellows says in his commentaries that the poem is a masterpiece with an "extraordinary degree of dramatic unity" and that it is one of the "most vivid and powerful" poems in the "Poetic Edda".It has, however, been argued that some parts originally belonged to "Sigrdrífumál", and the two poems are anyway very close in content.The material is mostly Scandinavian and there are few elements that connect it with the corresponding German tradition found in the "Nibelungenlied".