"
Sigurd said, "That work shall be wrought; but another is first to
be done, the avenging of Sigmund the king and the other of my
kinsmen who fell in that their last fight."
ENDNOTES:
(1) Called "Gripir" in the Edda.
CHAPTER XVII.
Of Sigurd's Avenging of Sigmund his Father.
Now Sigurd went to the kings, and spake thus --
"Here have I abode a space with you, and I owe you thanks and
reward, for great love and many gifts and all due honour; but now
will I away from the land and go meet the sons of Hunding, and do
them to wit that the Volsungs are not all dead; and your might
would I have to strengthen me therein."
So the kings said that they would give him all things soever that
he desired, and therewith was a great army got ready, and all
things wrought in the most heedful wise, ships and all war-gear,
so that his journey might be of the stateliest: but Sigurd
himself steered the dragon-keel which was the greatest and
noblest; richly wrought were their sails, and glorious to look
on.
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