"
Hogni answered, "Little will it avail to lie long brooding over
that rede, leaving the work undone."
And therewith they fell to hard fighting, at the first brunt with
shot.
But therewithal came the tidings to Gudrun, and when she heard
thereof she grew exceeding wroth, and cast her mantle from her,
and ran out and greeted those new-comers, and kissed her
brethren, and showed them all love, -- and the last of all
greetings was that betwixt them.
Then said she, "I thought I had set forth counsel whereby ye
should not come hither, but none may deal with his shapen fate."
And withal she said, "Will it avail aught to seek for peace?"
But stoutly and grimly they said nay thereto. So she sees that
the game goeth sorely against her brethren, and she gathers to
her great stoutness of heart, and does on her a mail-coat and
takes to her a sword, and fights by her brethren, and goes as far
forward as the bravest of man-folk; and all spoke in one wise
that never saw any fairer defence than in her.
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