Then Gunnar
brought unto her a drink mingled with hurtful things, and this
she must needs drink, and with the king thereof she had no more
memory of their guilt against her.
But in that drink was blended the might of the earth and the sea
with the blood of her son; and in that horn were all letters cut
and reddened with blood, as is said hereunder --
"On the horn's face were there
All the kin of letters
Cut aright and reddened,
How should I rede them rightly?
The ling-fish long
Of the land of Hadding,
Wheat-ears unshorn,
And wild things' inwards.
In that beer were mingled
Many ills together,
Blood of all the wood
And brown-burnt acorns,
The black dew of the hearth,
The God-doomed dead beast's inwards,
And the swine's liver sodden
Because all wrongs that deadens.
And so now, when their hearts are-brought anigh to each other,
great cheer they made: then came Grimhild to Gudrun, and spake.
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