Nithuth spake:
[33]. “Always I wake, | and ever joyless,
Little I sleep | since my sons were slain;
Cold is my head, | cold was thy counsel,
One thing, with Völund | to speak, I wish.
[34]. . . . . . . . . | . . . . . . . . [[266]]
“Answer me, Völund, | greatest of elves,
What happed with my boys | that hale once were?”
Völund spake:
[35]. “First shalt thou all | the oaths now swear,