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Fafnismol

  Sigurth spake:
26.[1] "Afar didst thou go  while Fafnir reddened
 With his blood my blade so keen;
With the might of the dragon  my strength I matched,
 While thou in the heather didst hide."

  Regin spake:
27. "Longer wouldst thou  in the heather have let
 Yon hoary giant hide,
Had the weapon availed not  that once I forged,
 The keen-edged blade thou didst bear."

  Sigurth spake:
28. [2] "Better is heart  than a mighty blade
 For him who shall fiercely fight;
The brave man well  shall fight and win,
 Though dull his blade may be.

29.[2] "Brave men better  than cowards be,
 When the clash of battle comes;
And better the glad  than the gloomy man
 Shall face what before him lies.

30.[3] "Thy rede it was  that I should ride

  1. ↑ In the manuscript stanzas 26-29 stand after stanza 31, which fails to make clear sense; they are here rearranged in accordance with the Volsungasaga paraphrase.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Almost certainly interpolated from some such poem as the Hovamol. Even the faithful Volsungasaga fails to paraphrase stanza 29.
  3. ↑

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