Sigurth spake:
16. "The mail-coat is broken, | the maiden speaks,
The woman who | from sleep has wakened;
What says the maid | to Sigurth then
That happy fate | to the hero brings?"
Gripir spake:
17. "Runes to the warrior | will she tell,
All that men | may ever seek,
And teach thee to speak | in all men's tongues,
And life with health; | thou'rt happy, king!"
Sigurth spake:
18. "Now is it ended, | the knowledge is won,
And ready I am | forth thence to ride;
Forward look | and further tell:
What the life | that I shall lead?"
Gripir spake:
19. "Then to Heimir's | home thou comest,
And glad shalt be | the guest of the king;
Ended, Sigurth, | is all I see,
No further aught | of Gripir ask."
Sigurth spake:
20. "Sorrow brings me | the word thou sayest,
For, monarch, forward | further thou seest;
Sad the grief | for Sigurth thou knowest,
Yet nought to me, Gripir, | known wilt make."
[19. Heimir: the Volsungasaga says that Heimir was the husband of Brynhild's sister, Bekkhild. Brynhild's family connections
involve a queer mixture of northern and southern legend. Heimir and Bekkhild are purely of northern invention; neither of them
is mentioned in any of the earlier poems, though Brynhild speaks of her "foster-father" in Helreith Brynhildar. In the older
Norse poems Brynhild is a sister of Atli (Attila), a relationship wholly foreign to the southern stories, and the father of
this strangely assorted pair is Buthli, who in the Nibelungenlied is apparently Etzel's grandfather. Add to this her role of
Valkyrie, and it is small wonder that the annotator himself was puzzled.]
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Sigurðr kvað:
16. "Brotin er brynja, brúðr mæla tekr,
er vaknaði víf ór svefni.
Hvat mun snót at heldr við Sigurð mæla,
þat er at farnaði fylki verði?"
Grípir kvað:
17. "Hon mun ríkjum þér rúnar kenna,
allar þær er aldir eignask vildu,
ok á manns tungu mæla hverja,
líf með lækning; lifðu heill, konungr."
Sigurðr kvað:
18. "Nú er því lokit, numin eru fræði
ok em braut þaðan búinn at ríða,
leið at huga ok lengra seg:
Hvat mun meir vera minnar ævi?"
Grípir kvað:
19. "Þú munt hitta Heimis byggðir
ok glaðr vera gestr þjóðkonungs;
farit er, Sigurðr, þats ek fyrir vissak,
skal-a fremr en svá fregna Grípi."
Sigurðr kvað:
20. "Nú fær mér ekka orð þatstu mæltir,
því at þú fram of sér fylkir, lengra;
veiztu ofmikit angr Sigurði,
því þú, Grípir, þat gerr-a segja."
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