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Völundarkvitha

6.[1] Völund home  from his hunting came,From a weary way,  the weather-wise bowman,Slagfith and Egil  the hall found empty,Out and in went they,  everywhere seeking.
7.[2] East fared Egil  after Olrun,And Slagfith south  to seek for Swan-White;Völund alone  in Ulfdalir lay,..............
8.[3] Red gold he fashioned  with fairest gems,And rings he strung  on ropes of bast;So for his wife  he waited long,If the fair one home  might come to him.
9.[4] This Nithuth learned,  the lord of the Njars,That Völund alone  in Ulfdalir lay;
  1. ↑ The phrase "Völund home from a weary way" is an emendation of Bugge's, accepted by many editors. Some of those who do not include it reject line 4, and combine the remainder of the stanza with all or part of stanza 7.
  2. ↑ The manuscript marks the second, and not the first, line as the beginning of a stanza. Some editors combine lines 2-3 with all or part of stanza 8. No gap is indicated in the manuscript, but many editors have assumed one, some of them accepting Bugge's suggested "Till back the maiden  bright should come."
  3. ↑ No line in this stanza is indicated in the manuscript as beginning a new stanza; editors have tried all sorts of experiments in regrouping the lines into stanzas with those of stanzas 7 and 9. In line 3 the word long is sheer guesswork, as the line in the manuscript contains a metrical error.
  4. ↑ Some editors combine the first two lines with parts of stanza 8, and the last two with the first half of stanza 10. Njars:

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