"
Then Brynhild sang --
"Long have I slept
And slumbered long,
Many and long are the woes of mankind,
By the might of Odin
Must I bide helpless
To shake from off me the spells of slumber.
"Hail to the day come back!
Hail, sons of the daylight!
Hail to thee, dark night, and thy daughter!
Look with kind eyes a-down,
On us sitting here lonely,
And give unto us the gain that we long for.
"Hail to the Aesir,
And the sweet Asyniur! (2)
Hail to the fair earth fulfilled of plenty!
Fair words, wise hearts,
Would we win from you,
And healing hands while life we hold."
Then Brynhild speaks again and says, "Two kings fought, one hight
Helm Gunnar, an old man, and the greatest of warriors, and Odin
had promised the victory unto him; but his foe was Agnar, or
Audi's brother, and so I smote down Helm Gunnar in the fight; and
Odin, in vengeance for that deed, stuck the sleep-thorn into me,
and said that I should never again have the victory, but should
be given away in marriage; but there against I vowed a vow, that
never would I wed one who knew the name of fear.
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