Although at my side | three nights she slept,

The warrior’s bride? | Such ne’er has been.”

Gripir spake:

[43]. “The marriage draught | will be drunk for both,

For Sigurth and Gunnar, | in Gjuki’s hall;

Your forms ye change, | when home ye fare,

But the mind of each | to himself remains.”

Sigurth spake:

[a]44]. “Shall the kinship new | thereafter come

To good among us? | Tell me, Gripir!