Are cold from wet,

How shall I, king,

Better this for thee?

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Helgi and his men rode their way, and the maidens went home to their house. The next evening Sigrun let a bondmaid keep watch at the mound; and at sunset, when Sigrun came to the mound, the bondmaid sang:

Now would have come,

If to come he intended,

The son of Sigmund[[407]]

From Odin’s halls;

I say that the hope