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Said 8igurd, "Wilt thou then cast it in my teeth that I am far
away from my kin? Albeit I was a bondsman, yet was I never
shackled. God wot thou hast found me free enow."
Fafnir answered, "In angry wise dost thou take my speech; but
hearken, for that same gold which I have owned shall be thy bane
too."
Quoth Sigurd, "Fain would we keep all our wealth til that day of
days; yet shall each man die once for all."
Said Fafnir, "Few things wilt thou do after my counsel, but take
heed that thou shalt be drowned if thou farest unwarily over the
sea; so bide thou rather on the dry land for the coming of the
calm tide."
Then said Sigurd, "Speak, Fafnir, and say, if thou art so
exceeding wise, who are the Norns who rule the lot of all
mothers' sons."
Fafnir answers, "Many there be and wide apart; for some are of
the kin of the Aesir, and some are of Elfin kin, and some there
are who are daughters of Dvalin."
Said Sigurd, "How namest thou the holm whereon Surt (3) and the
Aesir mix and mingle the water of the sword?"
"Unshapen is that holm hight," said Fafnir.
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