“How gottest thou, Völund, | greatest of elves,
These treasures of ours | in Ulfdalir?”
Völund spake:
[16]. “The gold was not | on Grani’s way, [[260]]
Far, methinks, is our realm | from the hills of the Rhine;
I mind me that treasures | more we had
When happy together | at home we were.”
[17]. Without stood the wife | of Nithuth wise,
And in she came | from the end of the hall;
On the floor she stood, | and softly spoke: