“He sat, and never slept, and struck with his hammer; fast he wrought his cunning work for Nidud.”
The hint
A smith, lamed and imprisoned, who made wings out of what he was given. The old row, carved not written.
The cipher
ᚠᛟᚱᚷᛖ
— The Poetic Edda · Völundarkviða · 13th C
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