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The king said, "Worser deeds hast thou done than men have to tell
of, and great unwisdom is there in such fearful redes; most meet
art thou to be burned on bale when thou hast first been smitten
to death with stones, for in such wise wouldst thou have what
thou hast gone a weary way to seek."
She answered, "Thine own death thou foretellest, but another
death is fated for me."
And many other words they spake in their wrath.
Now Hogni had a son left alive, hight Niblung, and great wrath of
heart he bare against King Atli; and he did Gudrun to wit that he
would avenge his father. And she took his words well, and they
fell to counsel together thereover, and she said it would be
great goodhap if it might be brought about.
So on a night, when the king had drunken, he gat him in bed, and
when he was laid asleep, thither to him came Gudrun and the son
of Hogni.
Gudrun took a sword and thrust it through the breast of King
Atli, and they both of them set their hands to the deed, both she
and the son of Hogni.
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