Guthrunarkvitha III and Oddrunargratr - Episode 110
Apr 29th, 2009 by spokenlore
Oddrun spake: “I remember the evil one eve thou spakest, When a draught I gave to Gunnar then; Thou didst say that never such a deed By maid was done save by me alone.”
Then the sorrowing woman sat her down To tell the grief of her troubles great.
“Happy I grew in the hero’s hall As the warriors wished, and they loved me well; Glad I was of my father’s gifts, For winters five, while my father lived.
“These were the words the weary king, Ere he died, spake last of all; He bade me with red gold dowered be, And to Grimhild’s son in the South be wedded.
“But Brynhild the helm he bade to wear, A wish-maid bright he said she should be; For a noble maid would never be born On earth, he said, if death should spare her.
~ Oddrunargratr, Stanzas 12 through 16
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