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Poetic Edda

.......  "The ring I have broken,I dare not say it  save to thee."
  Völund spake:28. "I shall weld the break  in the gold so wellThat fairer than ever  thy father shall find it,And better much  thy mother shall think it,And thou no worse  than ever it was."
29.[1] Beer he brought,  he was better in cunning,Until in her seat  full soon she slept.
  Völund spake:"Now vengeance I have  for all my hurts,Save one alone,  on the evil woman."
30.[2] ............................Quoth Völund: "Would  that well were the sinewsMaimed in my feet  by Nithuth's men."

    might be filled out (partly with the aid of late paper manuscripts) thus: "But soon it broke,  and swiftly to Völund / She bore it and said—"

  1. ↑ The manuscript does not name Völund as the speaker before line 3; Vigfusson again inserts his convenient line, "The Völund spake,  sagest of elves." A few editions combine lines 3-4 with the two lines of stanza 30.
  2. ↑ No gap indicated in the manuscript; some editors combine the two lines with lines 3-4 of stanza 29, and many with the three lines of stanza 31.

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