Than talking with a wooer

Or going to the bench

In a bride-walk.’[[385]]

“When Angantyr heard this he curled his lips, and it was a long time before he spoke; at last he said: ‘In an unbrotherly manner wast thou treated, my famous sister.’ Thereupon he looked over his hird, and there were not many. He sang—

‘Very many were we

When we drank the mead;

Now we are fewer

When we should be more;

I do not see one

Among my men