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Poetic Edda

Ended, Sigurth,  is all I see,No further aught  of Gripir ask."
  Sigurth spake:20. "Sorrow brings me  the word thou sayest,For, monarch, forward  further thou seest;Sad the grief  for Sigurth thou knowest,Yet nought to me, Gripir,  known wilt make."
  Gripir spake:21. "Before me lay  in clearest lightAll of thy youth  for mine eyes to see;Not rightly can I  wise be called,Nor forward-seeing;  my wisdom is fled."
  Sigurth spake:22. "No man, Gripir,  on earth I knowWho sees the future  as far as thou;Hide thou nought,  though hard it be,And base the deeds  that I shall do."
  Gripir spake:23. "With baseness never  thy life is burdened,

    involve a queer mixture of northern and southern legend. Heimir and Bekkhild are purely of northern invention; neither of them is mentioned in any of the earlier poems, though Brynhild speaks of her "foster-father" in Helreith Brynhildar. In the older Norse poems Brynhild is a sister of Atli (Attila), a relationship wholly foreign to the southern stories, and the father of this strangely assorted pair is Buthli, who in the Nibelungenlied is apparently Etzel's grandfather. Add to this her role of Valkyrie, and it is small wonder that the annotator himself was puzzled.

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