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Poetic Edda

38.[1] Then in came the shining one,  ............  and drink she bore them;Unwilling and bitter  brought she food to the warrior,Till in scorn to the white-faced  Atli did she speak:
39.[2] "Thou giver of swords,  of thy sons the heartsAll heavy with blood  in honey thou hast eaten;Thou shalt stomach, thou hero,  the flesh of the slain,To eat at thy feast,  and to send to thy followers.
40.[3] "Thou shalt never call  to thy knees againErp or Eitil,  when merry with ale;Thou shalt never see  in their seats againThe sharers of gold  their lances shaping,(Clipping the manes  or minding their steeds.)"
41.[4] There was clamor on the benches,  and the cry of men,
  1. ↑ No gap indicated in the manuscript, but the two fragments cannot be fitted together as one line. The shining one: Guthrun.
  2. ↑ Giver of swords: generous prince, i.e., Atli. Honey: cf. Guthrunarkvitha II, 42. To send to thy followers: literally, "to send from thy high seat."
  3. ↑ Apparently a Fornyrthislag stanza. Merry with ale: presumably this refers to Atli, but the manuscript reading makes it apply to the two boys. Sharers of gold: princes. Line 5 is either interpolated or all that is left of a separate stanza.
  4. ↑ The text of the whole stanza has required a considerable amount of emendation. Lines 3-5 may have been expanded out of two lines, or line 5 may be an interpolation, possibly from stanza

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