So Helgi rode his ways: and the others gat them gone home to the
house. But the next night Sigrun bade the bondwoman have heed of
the mound. So at nightfall, thenas Sigrun came to the mound, she
sang:
SIGRUN:
Here now would he come,
If to come he were minded;
Sigmund's offspring
From the halls of Odin.
O me the hope waneth
Of Helgi's coming;
For high on the ash-boughs
Are the ernes abiding,
And all folk drift
Toward the Thing of the dreamland.
BONDMAID:
Be not foolish of heart,
And fare all alone
To the house of the dead,
O Hero's daughter!
For more strong and dreadful
In the night season
Are all dead warriors
Than in the daylight.
But a little while lived Sigrun, because of her sorrow and
trouble. But in old time folk trowed that men should be born
again, though their troth be now deemed but an old wife's
dotting. And so, as folk say, Helgi and Sigrun were born again,
and at that tide was he called Helgi the Scathe of Hadding, and
she Kara the daughter of Halfdan; and she was a Valkyrie, even as
is said in the Lay of Kara.
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