William Morris,
The Story of the Volsungs — Chapter XXIV: Sigurd sees Brynhild at Hlymdale
“ Then said Alswid, "Thou has seen Brynhild, Budli's daughter, the greatest of great women." "Yea, verily," said Sigurd; "but how came she hither?" Aswid answered, "Short space there was betwixt the coming hither of the twain of you." Says Sigurd, "Yea, but a few, days agone I knew her for the best of the world's women." Alswid said, "Give not all thine heed to one woman, being such a man as thou art; ill life to sit lamenting for what we may not have." "I shall go meet her," says Sigurd, "and get from her love like my love, and give her a gold ring in token thereof." ”
