"
Then spake Brynhild,
Budli's daughter --
"None but Atli
Brought bale upon us,
My very brother
Born of Budli.
When we saw in the hall
Of the Hunnish people
The gold a-gleaming
On the kingly Giukings;
I have paid for that faring
Oft and Full,
And for the sight
That then I saw."
By a pillar she stood
And strained its wood to her;
From the eyes of Brynhild,
Budli's daughter,
Flashed out fire,
And she snorted forth venom,
As the sore wounds she gazed on
Of the dead-slain Sigurd.
ENDNOTES:
(1) This chapter is the Eddaic poem, called the first Lay of
Gudrun, inserted here by the translators.
CHAPTER XXXII.
Of the Ending of Brynhild.
And now none might know for what cause Brynhild must bewail with
weeping for what she had prayed for with laughter: but she spake
--
"Such a dream I had, Gunnar, as that my bed was acold, and that
thou didst ride into the hands of thy foes: lo now, ill shall it
go with thee and all thy kin, O ye breakers of oaths; for on the
day thou slayedst him, dimly didst thou remember how thou didst
blend thy blood with the blood of Sigurd, and with an ill reward
hast thou rewarded him for all that he did well to thee; whereas
he gave unto thee to be the mightiest of men; and well was it
proven how fast he held to his oath sworn, when he came to me and
laid betwixt us the sharp-edged sword that in venom had been made
hard.
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