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Poetic Edda

The oar-loops were burst,  the thole-pins were broken,Nor the ship made they fast  ere from her they fared.
35.[1] Not long was it after—  the end must I tell—That the home they beheld  that Buthli once had;Loud the gates resounded  when Hogni smote them;Vingi spake then a word  that were better unsaid:
36.[2] "Go ye far from the house,  for false is its entrance,Soon shall I burn you,  ye are swiftly smitten;I bade ye come fairly,  but falseness was under,Now bide ye afar  while your gallows I fashion."
37.[3] Then Hogni made answer,  his heart yielded little,

    connecting the breaking of the ship's keel with the violence of the rowing, but echoing the older legend in the last line, wherein the ship is allowed to drift away after the travellers have landed. Oar-loops: the thongs by which the oars in a Norse boat were made fast to the thole-pins, the combination taking the place of the modern oarlock.

  1. ↑ The manuscript indicates line 4 as beginning a new stanza, and many editions combine it with stanza 36, some of them assuming the loss of a line from stanza 35. In the Volsungasaga paraphrase the second half of line 4 is made a part of Vingi's speech: "Better had ye left this undone."
  2. ↑ Cf. note on preceding stanza; the manuscript does not indicate line 1 as beginning a stanza. Line 3 may be spurious.
  3. ↑ In the Volsungasaga paraphrase the second half of line 1 and the first half of line 2 are included in Hogni's speech.

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