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Poetic Edda

And another time  when as Imth's daughter
In rags thou wentest;  wilt longer wrangle?"

  Gothmund spake:
46.[1] "Sooner would I  at Frekastein
Feed the ravens  with flesh of thine
Than send your bitches  to seek their swill,
Or feed the swine;  may the fiends take you!"

  Helgi spake:
47.[2] "Better, Sinfjotli,  thee 'twould beseem
Battle to give  and eagles to gladden,
Than vain and empty  words to utter,
Though ring-breakers oft  in speech do wrangle.

48.[3] "Good I find not  the sons of Granmar,
But for heroes 'tis seemly  the truth to speak;
At Moinsheimar  proved the men
That hearts for the wielding  of swords they had."

49.[4] Mightily then  they made to run
Sviputh and Sveggjuth  to Solheimar;

    possibly a giant. Imth: nothing is known of him or his daughter.

  1. ↑ A few editions give this stanza to Sinfjotli. Frekastein: cf. Helgakvitha Hjorvarthssonar, 39 and note. A stanza may have been lost after stanza 46, parallel to stanza 25 of the second Helgi Hundingsbane lay.
  2. ↑ Ring-breakers: cf. stanza 18 and note.
  3. ↑ Moinsheimar: a battlefield of which nothing is known, where, however, the sons of Granmar appear to have fought bravely.
  4. ↑ Here the scene shifts to the shore amoung Hothbrodd's fol-

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