“Bid her swiftly | ready to be,

If her lover | alive she would find.”

Sigar spake:

[a]37]. “Hither now | has Helgi sent me,

With thee, Svava, | thyself to speak;

The hero said | he fain would see thee

Ere life the nobly | born should leave.”

Svava spake:

[a]38]. “What chanced with Helgi, | Hjorvarth’s son?

Hard to me | is harm now come;