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Hamthesmol

5.[1] "Lonely am I  as the forest aspen,Of kindred bare  as the fir of its boughs,My joys are all lost  as the leaves of the treeWhen the scather of twigs  from the warm day turns."
6.[2] Then Hamther spake forth,  the high of heart:"Small praise didst thou, Guthrun,  to Hogni's deed giveWhen they wakened thy Sigurth  from out of his sleep,Thou didst sit on the bed  while his slayers laughed.
7.[3] "Thy bed-covers white  with blood were redFrom his wounds, and with gore  of thy husband were wet;

    The manuscript and many editions combine them with stanza 5, while a few place them after stanza 5 as a separate stanza, reversing the order of the two lines. Kings of the folk: Guthrun's brothers, Gunnar and Hogni, slain by Atli.

  1. ↑ Cf. note on stanza 4; the manuscript does not indicate line 1 as beginning a stanza. Scather of twigs: poetic circumlocution for the wind (cf. Skaldskaparmal, chapter 27), though some editors think the phrase here means the sun. Some editors assume a more or less extensive gap between stanzas 5 and 6.
  2. ↑ Lines 1-3 are nearly identical with lines 1-3 of Guthrunarhvot, 4. On the death of Sigurth cf. Sigurtharkvitha en skamma, 21-24, and Brot, concluding prose. The word thy in line 3 is omitted in the original.
  3. ↑ Lines 1-2 are nearly identical with lines 4-5 of Guthrunarhvot, 4. The manuscript, followed by many editions, indicates line 3 and not line 1 as beginning a stanza.

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