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Helgakvitha Hundingsbana II

Take half my land  to pay the harm.Ring-decked maid,  and as meed for thy sons."
  Sigrun spake:35.[1] "I shall sit not happy  at Sevafjoll,Early or late,  my life to love,If the light cannot show,  in the leader's band,Vigblær bearing him  back to his home,(The golden-bitted;  I shall greet him never.)
36. "Such the fear  that Helgi's foesEver felt,  and all their kin,As makes the goats  with terror madRun from the wolf  among the rocks.
37.[2] "Helgi rose  above heroes allLike the lofty ash  above lowly thorns,Or the noble stag,  with dew besprinkled,Bearing his head  above all beasts,(And his horns gleam bright  to heaven itself.)"

[3]A hill was made in Helgi's memory. And when he

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    know; this and Vigdalir ("Battle-Dale") are purely mythical places.

  1. ↑ Line 5 may be spurious. Vigblær ("Battle-Breather"): Helgi's horse.
  2. ↑ Line 5 (or possibly line 4) may be spurious. Cf. Guthrunarkvitha I, 17, and Guthrunarkvitha II, 2.
  3. ↑ Prose.
  4. ↑ Valhall, etc.: there is no indication as to where the annotator got this notion of Helgi's sharing Othin's rule. It is

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