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Guthrunarkvitha I
Never a better lord I knew,
And never a woman worse I found."
And never a woman worse I found."
10.[1] Grieving could not Guthrun weep,
Such grief she had for her husband dead,
And so grim her heart by the hero's body.
Such grief she had for her husband dead,
And so grim her heart by the hero's body.
11.[2] Then spake Gollrond, Gjuki's daughter:
"Thy wisdom finds not, my foster-mother,
The way to comfort the wife so young."
She bade them uncover the warrior's corpse.
"Thy wisdom finds not, my foster-mother,
The way to comfort the wife so young."
She bade them uncover the warrior's corpse.
12.[3] The shroud she lifted from Sigurth, laying
His well-loved head on the knees of his wife:
"Look on thy loved one, and lay thy lips
To his as if yet the hero lived."
His well-loved head on the knees of his wife:
"Look on thy loved one, and lay thy lips
To his as if yet the hero lived."
13. Once alone did Guthrun look;
His hair all clotted with blood beheld,
The blinded eyes that once shone bright,
The hero's breast that the blade had pierced.
His hair all clotted with blood beheld,
The blinded eyes that once shone bright,
The hero's breast that the blade had pierced.
- ↑ Cf. stanza 5 and note. The manuscript abbreviates to first letters.
- ↑ Gollrond: not elsewhere mentioned. Line 4 looks like an interpolation replacing a line previously lost.
- ↑ The manuscript indicates line 3 as the beginning of a stanza, and some editors have attempted to follow this arrangement.
- ↑ Many editors assume the loss of a line from this stanza.
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