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Sigurtharkvitha en Skamma

When he hears I have gone  on the death-road hence."
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41.[1] "Never a wife  of fickle willYet to another  man should yield...............So vengence for all  my ills shall come."
42.[2] Up rose Gunnar,  the people's ruler,And flung his arms  round her neck so fair;And all who came,  of every kind,Sought to hold her  with all their hearts.
43.[3] But back she cast  all those who came,Nor from the long road  let them hold her;
  1. ↑ At this point there seem to be several omissions. Brynhild's statement in lines 1-2 seems to refer to the episode, not here mentioned but told in detail in the Volsungasaga, of Sigurth's effort to repair the wrong that has been done her by himself giving up Guthrun in her favor, an offer which she refuses. The lacuna here suggested, which is not indicated in the manuscript, may be simply a single line (line 1) or a stanza or more. After line 2 there is almost certainly a gap of at least one stanza, and possibly more, in which Brynhild states her determination to die.
  2. ↑ Hardly any two editions agree as to the arrangement of the lines in stanzas 42-44. I have followed the manuscript except in transposing line 4 of stanza 43 to this position from the place it holds in the manuscript after line 4 of stanza 44. All the other arrangements involve the rejection of two or more lines as spurious and the assumption of various gaps. Gering and Sijmons both arrange the lines thus: 42, 1-2; two-line gap; 43, 3
  3. ↑

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