[94] Gunnar.
[95] From here the narrative appears to be very fragmentary.
[96] Gunnar while in the serpent-pen.
[97] For "lund" (forest, wood), which is the reading of the MSS., the Copenhagen editor favors the correction to sund (a sound or strait, the Sound)?
[98] Borgny.
THE LAY OF ATLI.
Gudrun, Giuki's daughter, avenged her brothers, as is well known. She first killed Atli's sons, and afterwards Atli himself, and burnt the palace with all the household. On these events was this lay composed.
1. Atli sent riding a messenger to Gunnar, a crafty man, Knefrud was his name. To Giuki's courts he came, and to Gunnar's hall, to the seats of state,[99] and the glad potation:
2. There drank the courtiers wine in their Valhall—but the guileful ones[100] silence kept—the Huns' wrath they[101] feared. Then said Knefrud, with chilling voice:—the southern warrior on a high bench sat—