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Oddrunargratr

(And in she went  from the end of the hall;)
From the weary steed  the saddle she took;
Hear now the speech  that first she spake:

4.[1] "What news on earth,  .......
Or what has happened  in Hunland now?"

  A serving-maid spake:
"Here Borgny lies  in bitter pain,
Thy friend, and, Oddrun,  thy help would find."

  Oddrun spake:
5.[2] "Who worked this woe  for the woman thus,
Or why so sudden  is Borgny sick?"

  The serving-maid spake:
"Vilmund is he,  the heroes' friend,
Who wrapped the woman  in bedclothes warm,
(For winters five,  yet her father knew not)."

6.[3] Then no more  they spake, methinks;
She went at the knees  of the woman to sit;

    Line 3 (cf. Völundarkvitha, 17) or line 5 (cf. Thrymskvitha, 2), both quoted from older poems, is probably spurious; the manuscript marks line 3 as the beginning of a new stanza.

  1. ↑ Line 1 in the original appears to have lost its second half. In line 2 the word rendered "has happened" is doubtful. The manuscript does not indicate the speaker of lines 3-4, and a few editors assign them to Borgny herself.
  2. ↑ The manuscript does not indicate the speakers. For the woman: conjectural; the manuscript has instead: "What warrior now  hath worked this woe?" The manuscript indicates line 3 as beginning a new stanza. Line 5, apparently modeled on line 4 of stanza 13, is probably spurious.
  3. ↑

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