"
So when Sigurd came into the hall, Gunnar asked if he had come to
a knowledge of what great grief lay heavy on her, or if she had
power of speech: and Sigurd said that she lacked it not. So now
Gunnar goes to her again, and asked her, what wrought her woe, or
if there were anything that might amend it.
"I will not live," says Brynhild, "for Sigurd has bewrayed me,
yea, and thee no less, whereas thou didst suffer him to come into
my bed: lo thou, two men in one dwelling I will not have; and
this shall be Sigurd's death, or thy death, or my death; -- for
now has he told Gudrun all, and she is mocking me even now!"
ENDNOTES:
(1) Sunder.
CHAPTER XXX.
Of the Slaying of Sigurd Fafnir's-bane.
Thereafter Brynhild went out, and sat under her bower-wall, and
had many words of wailing to say, and still she cried that all
things were loathsome to her, both land and lordship alike, so
she might not have Sigurd.
But therewith came Gunnar to her yet again, and Brynhild spake,
"Thou shalt lose both realm and wealth, and thy life and me, for
I shall fare home to my kin, and abide there in sorrow, unless
thou slayest Sigurd and his son; never nourish thou a wolfcub.
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