Thou didst take my kinswoman and pine her to
death by hunger, and didst murder her, and take her wealth; an
ugly deed for a king! -- meet for mocking and laughter I deem it,
that thou must needs make long tale of thy woes; rather will I
give thanks to the Gods that thou fallest into ill."
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
Of the slaying of the Giukings.
Now King Atli eggs on his folk to set on fiercely, and eagerly
they fight; but the Giukings fell on so hard that King Atli gave
back into the hall, and within doors was the fight, and fierce
beyond all fights.
That battle was the death of many a man, but such was the ending
thereof, that there fell all the folk of those brethren, and they
twain alone stood up on their feet, and yet many more must fare
to hell first before their weapons.
And now they fell on Gunnar the king, and because of the host of
men that set on him was hand laid on him, and he was cast into
fetters; afterwards fought Hogni, with the stoutest heart and the
greatest manlihood; and he felled to earth twenty of the stoutest
of the champions of King Atli, and many he thrust into the fire
that burnt amidst the hall, and all were of one accord that such
a man might scarce be seen; yet in the end was he borne down by
many and taken.
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