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Helgakvitha Hundingsbana II

Take half my land  to pay the harm.
Ring-decked maid,  and as meed for thy sons."

  Sigrun spake:
35.[1] "I shall sit not happy  at Sevafjoll,
Early or late,  my life to love,
If the light cannot show,  in the leader's band,
Vigblær bearing him  back to his home,
(The golden-bitted;  I shall greet him never.)

36. "Such the fear  that Helgi's foes
Ever felt,  and all their kin,
As makes the goats  with terror mad
Run from the wolf  among the rocks.

37.[2] "Helgi rose  above heroes all
Like the lofty ash  above lowly thorns,
Or the noble stag,  with dew besprinkled,
Bearing his head  above all beasts,
(And his horns gleam bright  to heaven itself.)"

[3]A hill was made in Helgi's memory. And when he

[4]

    know; this and Vigdalir ("Battle-Dale") are purely mythical places.

  1. ↑ Line 5 may be spurious. Vigblær ("Battle-Breather"): Helgi's horse.
  2. ↑ Line 5 (or possibly line 4) may be spurious. Cf. Guthrunarkvitha I, 17, and Guthrunarkvitha II, 2.
  3. ↑ Prose.
  4. ↑ Valhall, etc.: there is no indication as to where the annotator got this notion of Helgi's sharing Othin's rule. It is

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