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Atlamol

  Guthrun spake:65.[1] "Thou art joyous, Atli,  for of evil thou tellest,But sorrow is thine  if thou mightest all see;Thy heritage heavy  here can I tell thee,Sorrow never thou losest  unless I shall die."
  Atli spake:66.[2] "Not free of guilt am I;  a way shall I findThat is better by far,—  oft the fairest we shunned;—With slaves I console thee,  with gems fair to see,And with silver snow-white,  as thyself thou shalt choose."
  Guthrun spake:67.[3] "No hope shall this give thee,  thy gifts I shall take not,Requital I spurned  when my sorrows were smaller;Once grim did I seem,  but now greater my grimness,There was nought seemed too hard  while Hogni was living.
  1. ↑ The manuscript does not indicate the speaker.
  2. ↑ The manuscript does not name the speaker. The negative in the first half of line 1 is uncertain, and most editions make the clause read "Of this guilt I can free myself." The fairest, etc.: i. e., I have often failed to do the wise thing.
  3. ↑ The manuscript does not indicate the speaker. Requital, etc.: it is not clear just to what Guthrun refers; perhaps she is thinking of Sigurth's death, or possibly the poet had in mind his reference to the slaying of her mother in stanza 53.

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