If thou comest within my claws.”

Atli spake:

[a]23]. “I will not go | till the warriors wake,

Again their chief to guard;

I should wonder not, | foul witch, if up

From beneath our keel thou shouldst come.”

Hrimgerth spake:

[a]24]. “Awake now, Helgi, | and Hrimgerth requite,

That Hati to death thou didst hew; [[282]]

If a single night | she can sleep by the prince,