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Will it bring to either,  for all have we lost;But, Guthrun, yet once  be thou kindly of will,For the honor of both,  when forth I am borne."
  Guthrun spake:97.[1] "A ship will I buy,  and a bright-hued coffin,I will wax well the shroud  to wind round thy body,For all will I care  as if dear were we ever."
98.[2] Then did Atli die,  and his heirs' grief doubled;The high-born one did  as to him she had promised;Then sought Guthrun the wise  to go to her death,But for days did she wait,  and 'twas long ere she died.
99. Full happy shall he be  who such offspring has,Or children so gallant,  as Gjuki begot;Forever shall live,  and in lands far and wide,Their valor heroic  wherever men hear it.
  1. ↑ The manuscript does not indicate the speaker. Many editors assume a gap either before or after line 1. A ship: the burial of Norse chiefs in ships was of frequent occurrence, but the Greenland poet's application of the custom to Atli is somewhat grotesque.
  2. ↑ Heirs, etc.: merely a stock phrase, here quite meaningless, as Atli's heirs had all been killed. Long: cf. Guthrunarhvot, introductory prose.

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