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Völundarkvitha

23.[1] ..............Early did brother  to brother call:"Swift let us go  the rings to see."
24.[2] They came to the chest,  and they craved the keys,The evil was open  when in they looked;He smote off their heads,  and their feet he hidUnder the sooty  straps of the bellows.
25.[3] Their skulls, once hid  by their hair, he took,Set them in silver  and sent them to Nithuth;Gems full fair  from their eyes he fashioned,To Nithuth's wife  so wise he gave them.
26.[4] And from the teeth  of the twain he wroughtA brooch for the breast,  to Bothvild he sent it;..............
27.[5] Bothvild then of her ring did boast,..............
  1. ↑ No gap indicated in the manuscript. Some editors assume it, as here; some group the lines with lines 3-4 of stanza 22, and some with lines 1-2 of stanza 24.
  2. ↑ Some editions begin a new stanza with line 3.
  3. ↑ The manuscript indicates line 3 as the beginning of a stanza, and many editors have adopted this grouping.
  4. ↑ These two lines have been grouped in various ways, either with lines 3-4 of stanza 25 or with the fragmentary stanza 27. No gap is indicated in the manuscript, but the loss of something is so obvious that practically all editors have noted it, although they have differed as to the number of lines lost.
  5. ↑ No gap indicated in the manuscript; the line and a half

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