ENDNOTES:
(1) The original has "raudu manna blodi", red-dyed in the blood
of men; the Sagaman's original error in dealing with the
word "Valaript" in the corresponding passage of the short
lay of Sigurd. -- Tr.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Gudrun wedded to Alii.
Now so it is, that whoso heareth these tidings sayeth, that no
such an one as was Sigurd was left behind him in the world, nor
ever was such a man brought forth because of all the worth of
him, nor may his name ever minish by eld in the Dutch Tongue nor
in all the Northern Lands, while the world standeth fast.
The story tells that, on a day, as Gudrun sat in her bower, she
fell to saying, "Better was life in those days when I had Sigurd;
he who was far above other men as gold is above iron, or the leek
over other grass of the field, or the hart over other wild
things; until my brethren begrudged me such a man, the first and
best of all men; and so they might not sleep or they had slain
him. Huge clamour made Grani when he saw his master and lord
sore wounded, and then I spoke to him even as with a man, but he
fell drooping down to the earth, for he knew that Sigurd was
slain.
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