And well has Gripir | answered my wish;

More of joy | to me wouldst tell

Of my life to come | if so thou couldst.”

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Gripir spake:

[a]53]. “Ever remember, | ruler of men,

That fortune lies | in the hero’s life;

A nobler man | shall never live

Beneath the sun | than Sigurth shall seem.”

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