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Poetic Edda

"Your blood shall redden  Atli's blade,And your oaths shall bind  you both in chains."
6. Without stood Guthrun,  Gjuki's daughter,Hear now the speech  that first she spake:"Where is Sigurth now,  the noble king,That my kinsmen riding  before him come?"
7.[1] Only this  did Hogni answer:"Sigurth we  with our swords have slain;The gray horse mourns  by his master dead."
8.[2] Then Brynhild spake,  the daughter of Buthli:"Well shall ye joy  in weapons and lands;Sigurth alone  of all had been lord,If a little longer  his life had been.
9.[3] "Right were it not  that so he should ruleO'er Gjuki's wealth  and the race of the Goths;

    South of the Rhine: the definite localization of the action shows how clearly all this part of the story was recognized in the North as of German origin. Atli (Attila; cf. introductory note to Gripisspo): the Northern version of the story makes him Brynhild's brother. His marriage with Guthrun, and his slaying of her brothers, are told in the Atli poems. Regarding the manner of Sigurth's death cf. concluding prose passage and note. Stanza 13 indicates that after stanza 5 a stanza containing the words of an eagle has been lost.

  1. ↑ One line of this stanza, but it is not clear which, seems to have been lost. The gray horse: Grani.
  2. ↑ Some editions set stanzas 8 and 9 after stanza 11; Sijmons marks them as spurious. Buthli: cf. Gripisspo, 19, note.
  3. ↑ Goths: a generic term for any German race; cf. Gripisspo,

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