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Poetic Edda

  Sigurth spake:42. "Shall Gunnar have  a goodly wife,Famed among men,—  speak forth now, Gripir!Although at my side  three nights she slept,The warrior's bride?  Such ne'er has been."
  Gripir spake:43.[1] "The marriage draught  will be drunk for both,For Sigurth and Gunnar,  in Gjuki's hall;Your forms ye change,  when home ye fare,But the mind of each  to himself remains."
  Sigurth spake:44. "Shall the kinship new  thereafter comeTo good among us?  Tell me, Gripir!To Gunnar joy  shall it later give,Or happiness send  for me myself?"
  Gripir spake:45.[2] "Thine oaths remembering,  silent thou art,And dwellest with Guthrun  in wedlock good;But Brynhild shall deem  she is badly mated,And wiles she seeks,  herself to avenge."
  1. ↑ The simultaneous weddings of Sigurth and Gunnar form a memorable feature of the German tradition as it appears in the Nibelungenlied, but in the Volsungasaga Sigurth marries Guthrun before he sets off with Gunnar to win Brynhild.
  2. ↑ According to the Volsungasaga, Sigurth remembers his oaths to Brynhild almost immediately after his return to Gunnar's house. Brynhild, on the other hand, knows nothing until the

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