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Sigurtharkvitha en Skamma

Yet from his heart  it was ever hidWhat deed most fitting  he should find,(Or what thing best  for him should be,Or if he should seek  the Volsung to slay,For with mighty longing  Sigurth he loved.)
14.[1] Much he pondered  for many an hour;Never before  was the wonder knownThat a queen should thus  her kingdom leave;In counsel then  did he Hogni call,(For him in truest  trust he held.)
15.[2] "More than all  to me is Brynhild,Buthli's child,  the best of women;My very life  would I sooner loseThan yield the love  of yonder maid.
16.[3] "Wilt thou the hero  for wealth betray?

    This stanza has been the subject of many conjectural emendations. Some editions assume a gap after line 2, and make a separate stanza of lines 3-7; others mark lines 5-7 as spurious. The stanza seems to have been expanded by repetition. Grief (line 1): the manuscript has "wrath," involving a metrical error.

  1. ↑ Bugge and Gering transfer lines 4-5 to the beginning of stanza 16, on the basis of the Volsungasaga paraphrase, and assume a gap of one line after line 3. Line 5, which is in the nature of a stereotyped clause, may well be interpolated.
  2. ↑ After "Buthli" in line 2 the manuscript has "my brother," apparently a scribal error. In line 4 the manuscript has "wealth" instead of "love," apparently with stanza 10 in mind, but the Volsungasaga paraphrase has "love," and many editors have suspected an error.
  3. ↑ Cf. note on stanza 14. After thus adding lines 4-5 of

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