William Morris

“ Then cried the fifth: “Yea, yea, not so wise is he as I deem him, if he spareth him, whose brother he hath slain already.”
At last spake the sixth: ‘‘Handy and good rede to slay him, and be lord of the treasure!” ”

“ Said Regin, ‘‘Long might this worm have lain in his lair, if the sharp sword I forged with my hand had not been good at need to thee; had that not been, neither thou nor any man would have prevailed against him as at this time.”
Sigurd answers, ‘‘Whenas men meet foes in fight, better is stout heart than sharp sword. ”