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Helgakvitha Hjorvarthssonar

Helgi at Sigarsvoll[1] after a stay of three nights. Then Helgi spake:

35. "On a wolf there rode,  when dusk it was,
A woman who fain  would have him follow;
Well she knew  that now would fall
Sigrlin's son  at Sigarsvoll."

There was a great battle, and there Helgi got a mortal wound.

36.[2] Sigar riding  did Helgi send
To seek out Eylimi's  only daughter:
"Bid her swiftly  ready to be,
If her lover  alive she would find."

  Sigar spake:
37. "Hither now  has Helgi sent me,
With thee, Svava,  thyself to speak;
The hero said  he fain would see thee
Ere life the nobly  born should leave."

  Svava spake:
38. "What chanced with Helgi,  Hjorvarth's son?
Hard to me  is harm now come;
If the sea smote him,  or sword bit him,
Ill shall I bring  to all his foes."

    who was in turn later killed by Helgi.

  1. ↑ Sigarsvoll ("Sigar's Field"): cf. stanza 8 and note; the Sigar in question may be the man who appears as Helgi's messenger in stanzas 36-39.
  2. ↑ Sigar ("The Victorious"): cf. the foregoing note.

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