From his early years he was big and strong, and full of
daring in all manly deeds and trials, and he became the greatest
of warriors, and of good hap in all the battles of his warfaring.
Now when he was fully come to man's estate, Hrimnir the giant
sends to him Ljod his daughter; she of whom the tale told, that
she brought the apple to Rerir, Volsung's father. So Volsung
weds her withal; and long they abode together with good hap and
great love. They had ten sons and one daughter, and their eldest
son was hight Sigmund, and their daughter Signy; and these two
were twins, and in all wise the foremost and the fairest of the
children of Volsung the king, and mighty, as all his seed was;
even as has been long told from ancient days, and in tales of
long ago, with the greatest fame of all men, how that the
Volsungs have been great men and high-minded and far above the
most of men both in cunning and in prowess and all things high
and mighty.
So says the story that king Volsung let build a noble hall in
such a wise, that a big oak-tree stood therein, and that the
limbs of the tree blossomed fair out over the roof of the hall,
while below stood the trunk within it, and the said trunk did men
call Branstock.
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