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Poetic Edda

  Sigurth spake:28. "What is it to me,  though the maiden beSo fair, and of Heimir  the fosterling is?Gripir, truth  to me shalt tell,For all of fate  before me thou seest."
  Gripir spake:29. "Of many a joy  the maiden robs thee,Fair to see,  whom Heimir fosters;Sleep thou shalt find not,  feuds thou shalt end not,Nor seek out men,  if the maid thou seest not."
  Sigurth spake:30. "What may be had  for Sigurth's healing?Say now, Gripir,  if see thou canst;May I buy the maid  with the marriage-price,The daughter fair  of the chieftain famed?"
  Gripir spake:31. "Ye twain shall all  the oaths then swearThat bind full fast;  few shall ye keep;One night when Gjuki's  guest thou hast been,Will Heimir's fosterling  fade from thy mind."
  Sigurth spake:32. "What sayst thou, Gripir?  give me the truth,Does fickleness hide  in the hero's heart?Can it be that troth  I break with the maid,With her I believed  I loved so dear?"

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