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Poetic Edda

Of gold or lands,  if my hand I gave not;
(More evil yet,  the wealth I should yield,)
The gold that he  in my childhood gave me,
(The wealth from him  in my youth I had.)

38.[1] "Oft in my mind  I pondered much
If still I should fight,  and warriors fell,
Brave in my byrnie,  my brother defying;
That would wide  in the world be known,
And sorrow for many  a man would make.

39.[2] "But the bond at last  I let be made,
For more the hoard  I longed to have,
The rings that the son  of Sigmund won;
No other's treasure  e'er I sought.

40. "One alone  of all I loved,
Nor changing heart  I ever had;
All in the end  shall Atli know,

    two stanzas, following the manuscript in beginning a new stanza with line 4. After line 1 Grundtvig adds: "Son of Buthli,  and brother of mine." After line 6 Bugge adds: "Not thou was it, Gunnar,  who Grani rode, / Though thou my brother  with rings didst buy." Regarding Brynhild's wealth cf. stanza 10 and note.

  1. ↑ Brynhild here again appears as a Valkyrie. The manuscript marks line 4 as the beginning of a new stanza. Any one of the last three lines may be spurious.
  2. ↑ Some editions combine this stanza with lines 4-5 of stanza 38, with lines 1-2 of stanza 40, or with the whole of stanza 40. The bond: Brynhild thought she was marrying Sigurth, owner of the treasure, whereas she was being tricked into marrying Gunnar.

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