WILLIAM MORRIS and EIRIKR MAGNUSSON.
ENDNOTES:
(1) Chapter viii. -- DBK.
THE STORY OF THE VOLSUNGS AND NIBLUNGS.
CHAPTER I.
Of Sigi, the Son of Odin.
Here begins the tale, and tells of a man who was named Sigi, and
called of men the son of Odin; another man withal is told of in
the tale, hight Skadi, a great man and mighty of his hands; yet
was Sigi the mightier and the higher of kin, according to the
speech of men of that time. Now Skadi had a thrall with whom the
story must deal somewhat, Bredi by name, who was called after
that work which he had to do; in prowess and might of hand he was
equal to men who were held more worthy, yea, and better than some
thereof.
Now it is to be told that, on a time, Sigi fared to the hunting
of the deer, and the thrall with him; and they hunted deer day-
long till the evening; and when they gathered together their prey
in the evening, lo, greater and more by far was that which Bredi
had slain than Sigi's prey; and this thing he much misliked, and
he said that great wonder it was that a very thrall should out-do
him in the hunting of deer: so he fell on him and slew him, and
buried the body of him thereafter in a snow-drift.
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