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Guthrunarkvitha III

4. "Nor ever once  did my arms embraceThe hero brave,  the leader of hosts;In another manner  our meeting was,When our sorrows we  in secret told.
5.[1] "With thirty warriors  Thjothrek came,Nor of all his men  doth one remain;Thou hast murdered my brothers  and mail-clad men,Thou hast murdered all  the men of my race.
6.[2] "Gunnar comes not,  Hogni I greet not,No longer I see  my brothers loved;My sorrow would Hogni  avenge with the sword,Now myself for my woes  I shall payment win.
7.[3] "Summon Saxi,  the southrons' king,For he the boiling  kettle can hallow."

    here, some assume that Thjothmar is another name or an error for Thjothrek, and Finnur Jonsson not only retains Thjothmar here but changes Thjothrek to Thjothmar in stanza 5 to conform to it.

  1. ↑ Regarding the death of Thjothrek's men cf. Guthrunarkvitha II, introductory prose, note. It was on these stanzas of Guthrunarkvitha III that the annotator based his introduction to Guthrunarkvitha II. The manuscript repeats the "thirty" in line 2, in defiance of metrical requirements.
  2. ↑ In the manuscript this stanza follows stanza 7; many editions have made the transposition.
  3. ↑ Who Saxi may be is not clear, but the stanza clearly points to the time when the ordeal by boiling water was still regarded as a foreign institution, and when a southern king (i. e., a Christian from some earlier-converted region) was necessary

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