Never a better | lord I knew,

And never a woman | worse I found.”

[10]. Grieving could not | Guthrun weep,

Such grief she had | for her husband dead,

And so grim her heart | by the hero’s body.

[11]. Then spake Gollrond, | Gjuki’s daughter:

“Thy wisdom finds not, | my foster-mother,

The way to comfort | the wife so young.”

She bade them uncover | the warrior’s corpse.

[12]. The shroud she lifted | from Sigurth, laying