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Poetic Edda

And the Hunnish king  with his wife is happy;
Joyless I am  and mateless ever,
Till cries from my heavy  heart burst forth."

10.[1] In her wrath to battle  she roused herself:
"Gunnar, now  thou needs must lose
Lands of mine  and me myself,
No joy shall I have  with the hero ever.

11.[2] "Back shall I fare  where first I dwelt,
Among the kin  that come of my race,
To wait there, sleeping  my life away,
If Sigurth's death  thou shalt not dare,
(And best of heroes  thou shalt not be.)

12.[3] "The son shall fare  with his father hence,
And let not long  the wolf-cub live;
Lighter to pay  is the vengeance-price
After the deed  if the son is dead."

13.[4] Sad was Gunnar,  and bowed with grief,
Deep in thought  the whole day through;

    a conjecture by Bugge. Some editions add line 2 to stanza 8. The manuscript indicates line 3 as the beginning of a stanza, and some editors assume a gap of two lines after line 4. Hunnish king: cf. stanza 4.

  1. ↑ Lands: Brynhild's wealth again points to the story represented by stanzas 32-39; elsewhere she is not spoken of as bringing wealth to Gunnar.
  2. ↑ Line 5, or perhaps line 3, may be interpolated.
  3. ↑ The son: the three-year-old son of Sigurth and Guthrun, Sigmund, who was killed at Brynhild's behest.
  4. ↑

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