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Poetic Edda

  Fafnir spake:
7.[1] "If thou mightest grow  thy friends among,
 One might see thee fiercely fight;
But bound thou art,  and in battle taken,
 And to fear are prisoners prone."

  Sigurth spake:
8. "Thou blamest me, Fafnir,  that I see from afar
 The wealth that my father's was;
Not bound am I,  though in battle taken,
 Thou hast found that free I live."

  Fafnir spake:
9. "In all I say  dost thou hatred see,
 Yet truth alone do I tell;
The sounding gold,  the glow-red wealth,
 And the rings thy bane shall be."

  Sigurth spake:
10. "Some one the hoard  shall ever hold,
 Till the destined day shall come;
For a time there is  when every man
 Shall journey hence to hell."

  Fafnir spake:
11.[2] "The fate of the Norns  before the headland

  1. ↑ Fafnir here refers to the fact that Hjordis, mother of the still unborn Sigurth, was captured by Alf after Sigmund's death; cf. Fra Dautha Sinfjotla, note.
  2. ↑ Stanzas 11-15 are probably interpolated, and come from

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