[23]. . . . . . . . . | . . . . . . . .

Early did brother | to brother call:

“Swift let us go | the rings to see.”

[24]. They came to the chest, | and they craved the keys,

The evil was open | when in they looked;

He smote off their heads, | and their feet he hid

Under the sooty | straps of the bellows.

[25]. Their skulls, once hid | by their hair, he took,

Set them in silver | and sent them to Nithuth;

Gems full fair | from their eyes he fashioned,