Thereafter she fared home, and found the witch-wife and bade her
change semblances again, and she did so.
Now as time wears, Signy brings forth a man-child, who was named
Sinfjotli, and when he grew up he was both big and strong, and
fair of face, and much like unto the kin of the Volsungs, and he
was hardly yet ten winters old when she sent him to Sigmund's
earth-house; but this trial she had made of her other sons or
ever she had sent them to Sigmund, that she had sewed gloves on
to their hands through flesh and skin, and they had borne it ill
and cried out thereat; and this she now did to Sinfjotli, and he
changed countenance in nowise thereat. Then she flayed off the
kirtle so that the skin came off with the sleeves, and said that
this would be torment enough for him; but he said --
"Full little would Volsung have felt such a smart this."
So the lad came to Sigmund, and Sigmund bade him knead their meal
up, while he goes to fetch firing; so he gave him the meal-sack,
and then went after the wood, and by then he came back had
Sinfjotli made an end of his baking.
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