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Gripisspo

 Sigurth spake:16. "The mail-coat is broken,  the maiden speaks,The woman who  from sleep has wakened;What says the maid  to Sigurth thenThat happy fate  to the hero brings?"
  Gripir spake:17. "Runes to the warrior  will she tell,All that men  may ever seek,And teach thee to speak  in all men's tongues,And life with health;  thou'rt happy, king!"
  Sigurth spake:18. "Now is it ended,  the knowledge is won,And ready I am  forth thence to ride;Forward look  and further tell:What the life  that I shall lead?"
  Gripir spake:19.[1] "Then to Heimir's  home thou comest,And glad shalt be  the guest of the king;

    Helgi: according to Helreith Brynhildar (stanza 8), with which the author of the Gripisspo was almost certainly familiar, the hero for whose death Brynhild was punished was named Hjalmgunnar. Is Helgi here identical with Hjalmgunnar, or did the author make a mistake? Finnur Jonsson thinks the author regarding Sigurth's Valkyrie as a fourth incarnation of Svava-Sigrun-Kara, and wrote Helgi's name in deliberately. Many editors, following Bugge, have tried to reconstruct line 2 so as to get rid of Helgi's name.

  1. ↑ Heimir: the Volsungasaga says that Heimir was the husband of Brynhild's sister, Bekkhild. Brynhild's family connections

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