Quoth Völund: “Would | that well were the sinews

Maimed in my feet | by Nithuth’s men.”

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[31]. Laughing Völund | rose aloft,

Weeping Bothvild | went from the isle,

For her lover’s flight | and her father’s wrath.

[32]. Without stood the wife | of Nithuth wise,

And in she came | from the end of the hall;

But he by the wall | in weariness sat:

“Wakest thou, Nithuth, | lord of the Njars?”