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Poetic Edda

But fortune thy sons  shall find not there, The bane of ye both it is."
  Hreithmar spake:7. "Gifts ye gave,  but ye gave not kindly, Gave not with hearts that were whole;Your lives ere this  should ye all have lost, If sooner this fate I had seen."
  Loki spake:8.[1] "Worse is this  that methinks I see, For a maid shall kinsmen clash;Heroes unborn  thereby shall be, I deem, to hatred doomed."
  Hreithmar spake:9.[2] "The gold so red  shall I rule, methinks, So long as I shall live;Nought of fear  for thy threats I feel, So get ye hence to your homes."

Fafnir and Regin asked Hreithmar for a share of the wealth that was paid for the slaying of their brother, Otr. This he refused, and Fafnir thrust his sword through the

  1. ↑ The word translated "maid" in line 2 is obscure, and "gold" may be meant. Apparently, however, the reference is to the fight between Sigurth and the sons of Gjuki over Brynhild. The manuscript does not name the speaker, and many editions assign this stanza to Hreithmar.
  2. ↑ The manuscript includes "said Hreithmar" (abbreviated) in the middle of line 1, and some editors have followed this.

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