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Poetic Edda

  Fafnir spake:7.[1] "If thou mightest grow  thy friends among, One might see thee fiercely fight;But bound thou art,  and in battle taken, And to fear are prisoners prone."
  Sigurth spake:8. "Thou blamest me, Fafnir,  that I see from afar The wealth that my father's was;Not bound am I,  though in battle taken, Thou hast found that free I live."
  Fafnir spake:9. "In all I say  dost thou hatred see, Yet truth alone do I tell;The sounding gold,  the glow-red wealth, And the rings thy bane shall be."
  Sigurth spake:10. "Some one the hoard  shall ever hold, Till the destined day shall come;For a time there is  when every man Shall journey hence to hell."
  Fafnir spake:11.[2] "The fate of the Norns  before the headland
  1. ↑ Fafnir here refers to the fact that Hjordis, mother of the still unborn Sigurth, was captured by Alf after Sigmund's death; cf. Fra Dautha Sinfjotla, note.
  2. ↑ Stanzas 11-15 are probably interpolated, and come from

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