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Poetic Edda

84.[1] To her heart came ever  the fate of Hogni,She told him 'twere well  if he vengeance should win;So was Atli slain,—  'twas not slow to await,—Hogni's son slew him,  and Guthrun herself.
85.[2] Then the warrior spake,  as from slumber he wakened,Soon he knew for his wounds  would the bandage do nought:"Now the truth shalt thou say:  who has slain Buthli's son?Full sore am I smitten,  nor hope can I see."
  Guthrun spake:86.[3] "Ne'er her deed from thee hides  the daughter of Grimhild,

    This son of Hogni appears in later versions of the story. In the Thithrekssaga he is called Aldrian, and is begotten by Hogni the night before his death. Aldrian grows up and finally shuts Attila in a cave where he starves to death. The poet here has incorporated the idea, which finds no parallel in the Atlakvitha, without troubling himself to straighten out the chronology.

  1. ↑ Line 4 may be in Fornyrthislag, and from another poem.
  2. ↑ The manuscript marks line 3 as beginning a new stanza. The Volsungasaga makes line 2 part of Atli's speech.
  3. ↑ The manuscript does not name the speakers. It marks line 4 as the beginning of a new stanza, and many editions follow this arrangement, in most cases making a stanza of lines 4-5 and line 1 of stanza 87. However, line 1 may well have been interpolated here from stanza 75. Grundtvig adds after line 3: "His father he avenged,  and his kinsmen fully." Some editors assume the loss of one or two lines after line 5.

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