11. "A greater sorrow | I saw not nor knew,
Yet more it seemed | I must suffer yet
When the princes great | to Atli gave me.
12. "The brave boys I summoned | to secret speech;
For my woes requital | I might not win
Till off the heads | of the Hniflungs I hewed.
13. "To the sea I went, | my heart full sore
For the Norns, whose wrath | I would now escape;
But the lofty billows | bore me undrowned,
Till to land I came, | so I longer must live.
14. "Then to the bed-- | of old was it better!--
Of a king of the folk | a third time I came;
Boys I bore | his heirs to be,
Heirs so young, | the sons of Jonak.
15. "But round Svanhild | handmaidens sat,
She was dearest ever | of all my children;
So did Svanhild | seem in my hall
As the ray of the sun | is fair to see.
[11. Line 1 in the original is of uncertain meaning. Many editors assume the loss of a line after line 1,
and some completely reconstruct line 1 on the basis of a hypothetical second line. Princes: Gunnar and Hogni.
12. Some editors assume the loss of one line, or more, before line 1. Hniflungs: Erp and Eitil, the sons of Guthrun and Atli.
On the application of the name Niflung (or, as later spelt, [fp. 542] Hniflung) to the descendants of Gjuki, Guthrun's father, cf. Brot, 17, note.
13. Norns: the fates; cf. Voluspo, 8 and note.
14. The manuscript omits the first half of line 4.]
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11. Svárra sára sák-at ek né kunna,
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meir ţóttusk mér of stríđa,
er mik öđlingar Atla gáfu.
12. Húna hvassa hét ek mér at rúnum;
máttig-a-k bölva betr of vinna,
áđr ek hnóf höfuđ af Hniflungum.
13. Gekk ek til strandar, gröm vark nornum,
vilda ek hrinda stríđ griđ ţeira;
hófu mik, né drekkđu, hávar bárur,
ţví ek land of sték, at lifa skyldak.
14. Gekk ek á beđ, hugđak mér fyr betra,
ţriđja sinni ţjóđkonungi;
ól ek mér jóđ, erfivörđu,
erfivörđu, Jónakrs sonum.
15. En um Svanhildi sátu ţýjar,
er ek minna barna bazt fullhugđak;
svá var Svanhildr í sal mínum
sem vćri sćmleitr sólar geisli.
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