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Poetic Edda

30. "The ship shall sail not  in which thou sailest,Though a favoring wind  shall follow after;The horse shall run not  whereon thou ridest,Though fain thou art  thy foe to flee.
31.[1] ............................"The sword shall bite not  which thou bearest,Till thy head itself  it sings about.
32. "Vengeance were mine  for Helgi's murder,Wert thou a wolf  in the woods without,Possessing nought  and knowing no joy,Having no food  save corpses to feed on."
  Dag spake:33. "Mad art thou, sister,  and wild of mind,Such a curse  on thy brother to cast;Othin is ruler  of every ill,Who sunders kin  with runes of spite.
34.[2] "Thy brother rings  so red will give thee,All Vandilsve  and Vigdalir;

    daughter of the sea-god Ægir; regarding her sacred stone we know nothing. According to the annotator, Dag's life had been spared because he swore loyalty to Helgi.

  1. ↑ No gap indicated in the manuscript, but most editors have assumed that either the first or the last two lines have been lost. Bugge adds a line: "The shield shall not help thee  which thou holdest."
  2. ↑ Vandilsve ("Vandil's Shrine"): who Vandil was we do not

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