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Atlamol

He felled his staunch bulwark,  his own sorrow fashioned,Soon a message he sent  that his kinsmen should seek him.
3.[1] Wise was the woman,  she fain would use wisdom,She saw well what meant  all they said in secret;From her heart it was hid  how help she might render,The sea they should sail,  while herself she should go not.
4.[2] Runes did she fashion,  but false Vingi made them,The speeder of hatred,  ere to give them he sought;Then soon fared the warriors  whom Atli had sent,And to Limafjord came,  to the home of the kings.
5.[3] They were kindly with ale,  and fires they kindled,

    of his wife's brothers, who were ready to support and defend him in his greatness, was the cause of his own death.

  1. ↑ The woman: Guthrun, concerning whose marriage to Atli cf. Guthrunarkvitha II. The sea: a late and essentially Greenland variation of the geography of the Atli story. Even the Atlakvitha, perhaps half a century earlier, separates Atli's land from that of the Gjukungs only by a forest.
  2. ↑ Runes: on the two versions of Guthrun's warning, and also on the name of the messenger (here Vingi), cf. Drap Niflunga and note. Limafjord: probably the Limfjord of northern Jutland, an important point in the wars of the eleventh century. The name was derived from "Eylimafjǫrþ," i.e., Eylimi's fjord. The poet may really have thought that the kingdom of the Burgundians was in Jutland, or he may simply have taken a well-known name for the sake of vividness.
  3. ↑

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