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body of his father, Hreithmar, while he was sleeping. Hreithmar called to his daughters:

10.[1] "Lyngheith and Lofnheith,  fled is my life, And mighty now is my need!"
  Lyngheith spake:"Though a sister loses  her father, seldom Revenge on her brother she brings."
  Hreithmar spake:11.[2] "A daughter, woman  with wolf's heart, bear,If thou hast no son  with the hero brave;If one weds the maid,  for the need is mighty,Their son for thy hurt  may vengeance seek."

Then Hreithmar died, and Fafnir took all the gold. Thereupon Regin asked to have his inheritance from his father, but Fafnir refused this. Then Regin asked counsel

  1. ↑ Hreithmar's daughters do not appear elsewhere. It has been suggested that originally stanza 10 was followed by one in which Lofnheith lamented her inability to avenge her father, as she was married and had no son.
  2. ↑ Apparently an interpolation (cf. Introductory Note). Vigfusson tries to reconstruct lines 2 and 4 to fit the Ljothahattr rhythm, but without much success. Hreithmar urges his daughter, as she has no sons, to bear a daughter who, in turn, will have a son to avenge his great-grandfather. Grundtvig worked out an ingenious theory to fit this stanza, making Sigurth's grandfather, Eylimi, the husband of Lyngheith's daughter, but there is absolutely no evidence to support this. The stanza may have nothing to do with Hreithmar.

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