Ah, wise he were, if he did
after your redes, and bethought him of his own weal; `for where
wolf's ears are, wolf's teeth are near.'"
Then cried the fifth: "Yea, yea, not so wise is he as I deem him,
if he spareth him whose brother he hath slain already."
At last spake the sixth: "Handy and good rede to slay him, and be
lord of the treasure!"
Then said Sigurd, "The time is unborn wherein Regin shall be my
bane; nay, rather one road shall both these brothers fare."
And therewith he drew his sword Gram and struck off Regin's head.
Then heard Sigurd the wood-peckers a-singing, even as the song
says. (1)
For the first sang:
"Bind thou, Sigurd,
The bright red rings!
Not meet it is
Many things to fear.
A fair may know I,
Fair of all the fairest
Girt about with gold,
Good for thy getting."
And the second:
"Green go the ways
Toward the hall of Giuki
That the fates show forth
To those who fare thither;
There the rich king
Reareth a daughter;
Thou shalt deal, Sigurd,
With gold for thy sweetling.
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