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Hamthesmol

Like the hounds of the Norns,  that nourished were In greed mid wastes so grim.
30.[1] "We have greatly fought,  o'er the Goths do we standBy our blades laid low,  like eagles on branches;Great our fame though we die  today or tomorrow;None outlives the night  when the Norns have spoken."
31.[2] Then Sorli beside  the gable sank,And Hamther fell  at the back of the house.

This is called the old ballad of Hamther.[3]

    This is almost certainly an interpolated Ljothahattr stanza, though some editors have tried to expand it into the Fornyrthislag form. Hounds of the Norns: wolves.

  1. ↑ Some editors assume a gap after this stanza.
  2. ↑ Apparently a fragment of a stanza from the "old" Hamthesmol to which the annotator's concluding prose note refers. Some editors assume the loss of two lines after line 2.
  3. ↑ Prose. Regarding the "old" Hamthesmol, cf. Guthrunarhvot, introductory note.

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