Sæmundr Sigfússon

“ These last words the noble-hearted king strove to utter, ere he departed hence.
17. He bade me be endowed with ruddy gold, and in the south be given to Grimhild's son. He said no maiden could more excellent in the world be born, if fate willed it not otherwise. ”

“ Then came Atli's miserable mother crawling forth:—may she perish!—she Gunnar pierced to the heart; so that the hero I could not save.
33. Oftentimes I wonder, woman gold-adorned! [6] how I after can life retain; for I seemed the formidable sword-dispenser as myself to love:
34. Thou sitst and listenest, while I recount to thee many an evil fate, my own and theirs." Each one lives as he best may. Now is ended Oddrun's lament.
↑ For Brynhild's death. ↑ Gunnar. ↑ From here the narrative appears to be very fragmentary. ↑ Gunnar while in the serpent-pen. ”