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Helgakvitha Hundingsbana II

And hither spurring  urge your steeds,Or is home-coming now  to the heroes granted?"
  Helgi spake:40.[1] "No dream is this  that thou thinkest to see,Nor the end of the world,  though us thou beholdest,And hither spurring  we urge our steeds,Nor is home-coming now  to the heroes granted."

The maiden went home and said to Sigrun:

41.[2] "Go forth, Sigrun,  from Sevafjoll,If fain the lord  of the folk wouldst find;(The hill is open,  Helgi is come;)The sword-tracks bleed;  the monarch badeThat thou his wounds  shouldst now make well."

Sigrun went in the hill to Helgi, and said:

42. "Now am I glad  of our meeting together,As Othin's hawks,  so eager for prey,When slaughter and flesh  all warm they scent,Or dew-wet see  the red of day.

    and rök, "doom," has been confused with rökkr, "darkness," and so translated "dusk of the Gods," or "Götterdämmerung."

  1. ↑ In the manuscript most of this stanza is abbreviated to the first letters of the words.
  2. ↑ Line 3 (or possibly line 2) may be spurious. Sword-tracks: wounds. One edition places stanza 48 after stanza 41, and another does the same with stanza 50.

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