"
"Ah, I should be well content," said Brynhild, "if thou hadst not
the nobler man!"
Gudrun answers, "So noble a husband hast thou, that who knows of
a greater king or a lord of more wealth and might?"
Says Brynhild, "Sigurd slew Fafnir, and that only deed is of more
worth than all the might of King Gunnar."
(Even as the song says) --
"The worm Sigurd slew,
Nor ere shall that deed
Be worsened by age
While the world is alive.
But thy brother the King
Never durst, never bore
The flame to ride down
Through the fire to fare."
Gudrun answers, "Grani would not abide the fire under Gunnar the
King, but Sigurd durst the deed, and thy heart may well abide
without mocking him."
Brynhild answers, "Nowise will I hide from thee that I deem no
good of Grimhild."
Says Gudrun, "Nay, lay no ill words on her, for in all things she
is to thee as to her own daughter."
"Ah," says Brynhild, "she is the beginning of all this hale that
biteth so; an evil drink she bare to Sigurd, so that he had no
more memory of my very name.
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