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Poetic Edda

By night went his men,  their mail-coats were studded,Their shields in the waning  moonlight shone.
10.[1] From their saddles the gable  wall they sought,And in they went  at the end of the hall;Rings they saw there  on ropes of bast,Seven hundred  the hero had.
11.[2] Off they took them,  but all they leftSave one alone  which they bore away.............................
12.[3] Völund home  from his hunting came,From a weary way,  the weather-wise bowman;A brown bear's flesh  would he roast with fire;Soon the wood so dry  was burning well,(The wind-dried wood  that Völund's was).

    there has been much, and inconclusive, discussion as to what this name means; probably it applies to a semi-mythical people somewhere vaguely in "the East."

  1. ↑ Some editors combine lines 3-4 with the fragmentary stanza 11.
  2. ↑ No gap indicated in the manuscript; some editors combine these lines with lines 3-4 of stanza 10, while others combine them with the first two lines of stanza 12. The one ring which Nithuth's men steal is given to Bothvild, and proves the cause of her undoing.
  3. ↑ The manuscript indicates line 3, and not line 1, as the beginning of a stanza, which has given rise to a large amount of conjectural rearrangement. Line 2 of the original is identical with the phrase added by Bugge in stanza 6. Line 5 may be

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