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Poetic Edda

And the Hunnish king  with his wife is happy;Joyless I am  and mateless ever,Till cries from my heavy  heart burst forth."
10.[1] In her wrath to battle  she roused herself:"Gunnar, now  thou needs must loseLands of mine  and me myself,No joy shall I have  with the hero ever.
11.[2] "Back shall I fare  where first I dwelt,Among the kin  that come of my race,To wait there, sleeping  my life away,If Sigurth's death  thou shalt not dare,(And best of heroes  thou shalt not be.)
12.[3] "The son shall fare  with his father hence,And let not long  the wolf-cub live;Lighter to pay  is the vengeance-priceAfter the deed  if the son is dead."
13.[4] Sad was Gunnar,  and bowed with grief,Deep in thought  the whole day through;

    a conjecture by Bugge. Some editions add line 2 to stanza 8. The manuscript indicates line 3 as the beginning of a stanza, and some editors assume a gap of two lines after line 4. Hunnish king: cf. stanza 4.

  1. ↑ Lands: Brynhild's wealth again points to the story represented by stanzas 32-39; elsewhere she is not spoken of as bringing wealth to Gunnar.
  2. ↑ Line 5, or perhaps line 3, may be interpolated.
  3. ↑ The son: the three-year-old son of Sigurth and Guthrun, Sigmund, who was killed at Brynhild's behest.
  4. ↑

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