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Reginsmol

Hunding, and his brothers; there Lyngvi fell, and his two brothers with him.[1] After the battle Regin said:

26.[2] "Now the bloody eagle  with biting swordIs carved on the back  of Sigmund's killer;Few were more fierce  in fight than his son,Who reddened the earth  and gladdened the ravens."

Sigurth went home to Hjalprek's house; thereupon Regin egged him on to fight with Fafnir.[3]

  1. ↑ The Volsungasaga names one brother who was with Lyngvi in the battle, Hjorvarth, and Sigurth kills him as readily as if he had not already been killed long before by Helgi. But, as has been seen, it was nothing for a man to be killed in two or three different ways.
  2. ↑ Bloody eagle, etc.: the Nornageststhattr describes the manner in which the captured Lyngvi was put to death. "Regin advised that they should carve the bloody eagle on his back. So Regin took his sword and cleft Lyngvi's back so that he severed his back from his ribs, and then drew out his lungs. So died Lyngvi with great courage."
  3. ↑ Prose. In Regius there is no break of any kind between this prose passage and the prose introduction to the Fafnismol (cf. Introductory Note).

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