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Poetic Edda

And another time  when as Imth's daughterIn rags thou wentest;  wilt longer wrangle?"
  Gothmund spake:46.[1] "Sooner would I  at FrekasteinFeed the ravens  with flesh of thineThan send your bitches  to seek their swill,Or feed the swine;  may the fiends take you!"
  Helgi spake:47.[2] "Better, Sinfjotli,  thee 'twould beseemBattle to give  and eagles to gladden,Than vain and empty  words to utter,Though ring-breakers oft  in speech do wrangle.
48.[3] "Good I find not  the sons of Granmar,But for heroes 'tis seemly  the truth to speak;At Moinsheimar  proved the menThat hearts for the wielding  of swords they had."
49.[4] Mightily then  they made to runSviputh and Sveggjuth  to Solheimar;

    possibly a giant. Imth: nothing is known of him or his daughter.

  1. ↑ A few editions give this stanza to Sinfjotli. Frekastein: cf. Helgakvitha Hjorvarthssonar, 39 and note. A stanza may have been lost after stanza 46, parallel to stanza 25 of the second Helgi Hundingsbane lay.
  2. ↑ Ring-breakers: cf. stanza 18 and note.
  3. ↑ Moinsheimar: a battlefield of which nothing is known, where, however, the sons of Granmar appear to have fought bravely.
  4. ↑ Here the scene shifts to the shore amoung Hothbrodd's fol-

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