Some stanzas from a norwegian version of "Harpans Kraft" ("The Power of the Harp"), is the title of a supernatural ballad type, attested in Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Icelandic variants.

All have the common plot of
"Man saves his maiden from monster by playing his golden harp",but offcourse there are more to it.The few stanzas here dont show the picture, and as always there is a big metaphorical analyzis to be done, but I keep it short for now.

A bridegroom/hero asks his betrothed maiden why she is so sorrowful. At last she answers that she is going to fall into a river on her way to her wedding. The symbolism here is the maiden as the egg, that re-unites with the Man/Hero(the seed). This is the eternal marriage, the wedding. He has to melt with the female egg to re-incarnate in a new shape.He is re-born, improved, with all the accumulated ancestral memory of the runes/secrets.

"The Golden Harp"
The gold is "eternal metals", they reflect the sun. In other words, they are an avatar and a symbol of ancestors. The blood memory. The ancestral spirit. It is spiritual, and it is eternal. The playing of a golden harp is common norse mythology and folklore and comes form the tradition with telling of a sitting on a burial mound, striking a harp. Our ancestors did this, they visited the burial mounds of our ancestors, to reflect, to gain memory, divine memory, from previous lives. To be sitting on a burial mound and striking the instrument of Bragi (the god of poetry, inspiration - equivalent to Óðinn) - yes, it is Óðinn sitting on the mound, just like it is Óðinn hanging in the tree of life, given to himself by himself. Because, Óðinn is all your accumulated ancestors - in you.

My interpertations are inspired by these two articles from Odelsarven

https://www.odelsarven.com/single-post/the-overwhelming-symbolism-in-our...

https://www.odelsarven.com/post/heming-and-gyvri