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Poetic Edda
Sigurth spake:
42. "Shall Gunnar have a goodly wife,
Famed among men,— speak forth now, Gripir!
Although at my side three nights she slept,
The warrior's bride? Such ne'er has been."
42. "Shall Gunnar have a goodly wife,
Famed among men,— speak forth now, Gripir!
Although at my side three nights she slept,
The warrior's bride? Such ne'er has been."
Gripir spake:
43.[1] "The marriage draught will be drunk for both,
For Sigurth and Gunnar, in Gjuki's hall;
Your forms ye change, when home ye fare,
But the mind of each to himself remains."
43.[1] "The marriage draught will be drunk for both,
For Sigurth and Gunnar, in Gjuki's hall;
Your forms ye change, when home ye fare,
But the mind of each to himself remains."
Sigurth spake:
44. "Shall the kinship new thereafter come
To good among us? Tell me, Gripir!
To Gunnar joy shall it later give,
Or happiness send for me myself?"
44. "Shall the kinship new thereafter come
To good among us? Tell me, Gripir!
To Gunnar joy shall it later give,
Or happiness send for me myself?"
Gripir spake:
45.[2] "Thine oaths remembering, silent thou art,
And dwellest with Guthrun in wedlock good;
But Brynhild shall deem she is badly mated,
And wiles she seeks, herself to avenge."
45.[2] "Thine oaths remembering, silent thou art,
And dwellest with Guthrun in wedlock good;
But Brynhild shall deem she is badly mated,
And wiles she seeks, herself to avenge."
- ↑ The simultaneous weddings of Sigurth and Gunnar form a memorable feature of the German tradition as it appears in the Nibelungenlied, but in the Volsungasaga Sigurth marries Guthrun before he sets off with Gunnar to win Brynhild.
- ↑ According to the Volsungasaga, Sigurth remembers his oaths to Brynhild almost immediately after his return to Gunnar's house. Brynhild, on the other hand, knows nothing until the
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