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Therewith she kissed Sigmund her brother, and Sinfjotli, and went
back again into the fire, and there she died with King Siggeir
and all his good men.
But the two kinsmen gathered together folk and ships, and Sigmund
went back to his father's land, and drave away thence the king,
who had set himself down there in the room of king Volsung.
So Sigmund became a mighty King and far-famed, wise and high-
minded: he had to wife one named Borghild, and two sons they had
between them, one named Helgi and the other Hamund; and when
Helgi was born, Norns came to him, (3) and spake over him, and
said that he should be in time to come the most renowned of all
kings. Even therewith was Sigmund come home from the wars, and
so therewith he gives him the name of Helgi, and these matters as
tokens thereof, Land of Rings, Sun-litten Hill and Sharp-shearing
Sword, and withal prayed that he might grow of great fame, and
like unto the kin of the Volsungs.
And so it was that he grew up high-minded, and well beloved, and
above all other men in all prowess; and the story tells that he
went to the wars when he was fifteen winters old.
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