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Helgakvitha Hundingsbana II

She greeted the hero  helmed and kissed him,
The warrior's heart  to the woman turned.

14.[1] From her heart the daughter  of Hogni spake,
Dear was Helgi,  she said, to her;
"Long with all  my heart I loved
Sigmund's son  ere ever I saw him.

15. "At the meeting to Hothbrodd  mated I was,
But another hero  I fain would have;
Though, king, the wrath  of my kin I fear,
Since I broke my father's  fairest wish."

  Helgi spake:
16. "Fear not ever  Hogni's anger,
Nor yet thy kinsmen's  cruel wrath;
Maiden, thou  with me shalt live,
Thy kindred, fair one,  I shall not fear."

[2]

    Granmar, stanza 19; Hothbrodd, stanza 19; Gothmund, stanza 33; Svarin's hill, stanza 32; Logafjoll, stanza 13; Alf, Eyjolf, Hjorvarth and Hervarth, stanza 14. The old Volsung lay: cf. Introductory Note.

    Some editions combine lines 3-4, or line 4, with part of stanza 14.

  1. ↑ The lines of stanzas 14 and 15 are here rearranged in accordance with Bugge's emendation; in the manuscript they stand as follows: lines 3-4 of stanza 14; stanza 15; lines 1-2 of stanza 14. This confusion has given rise to various editorial conjectures.
  2. ↑ Prose. The manuscript indicates no division. Here again, the annotator has drawn practically all his information from Helga-

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