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Poetic Edda

Nine miles deeper  down mayst thou sink, And a tree grow tall on thy bosom."
  Hrimgerth spake:17.[1] "Hrimgerth am I,  my father was Hati, Of giants the most in might;Many a woman  he won from her home, Ere Helgi hewed him down."
  Atli spake:18.[2] "Witch, in front  of the ship thou wast, And lay before the fjord;To Ron wouldst have given  the ruler's men, If a spear had not stuck in thy flesh."
  Hrimgerth spake:19.[3] "Dull art thou, Atli,  thou dreamest, methinks, The lids lie over thine eyes;By the leader's ships  my mother lay, Hlothvarth's sons on the sea I slew.
  1. ↑ The manuscript does not indicate the speaker.
  2. ↑ From this point to the end the manuscript does not indicate the speakers. Ron: wife of the sea-god Ægir, who draws drowning men into the sea with her net. There is no other reference to the wounding of Hrimgerth.
  3. ↑ Apparently both Hrimgerth and her mother, Hati's wife, had sought to destroy Helgi's ships, and had actually killed some of his companions, the sons of Hlothvarth, concerning whom nothing more is known. Many editors assume that a stanza containing a speech by Atli has been lost after stanza 19.

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