"Ask me not," she said; "ye shall die, the twain of you!"
Then they answered, "Thou mayest do with thy children even as
thou wilt, nor shall any hinder thee, but shame there is to thee
in the doing of this deed."
Yet for all that she cut the throats of them.
Then the king asked where his sons were, and Gudrun answered, "I
will tell thee, and gladden thine heart by the telling; lo now,
thou didst make a great woe spring up for me in the slaying of my
brethren; now hearken and hear my rede and my deed; thou hast
lost thy sons, and their heads are become beakers on the board
here, and thou thyself hast drunken the blood of them blended
with wine; and their hearts I took and roasted them on a spit,
and thou hast eaten thereof."
King Atli answered, "Grim art thou in that thou hast murdered thy
sons, and given me their flesh to eat, and little space passes
betwixt ill deed of thine and ill deed."
Gudrun said, "My heart is set on the doing to thee of as great
shame as may be; never shall the measure ill be of full to such a
king as thou art.
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