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[6]. By herself at the end | of day she sat,

And in open words | her heart she uttered:

“I shall Sigurth have, | the hero young,

E’en though within | my arms he die.

[7]. “The word I have spoken; | soon shall I rue it,

His wife is Guthrun, | and Gunnar’s am I;

Ill Norns set for me | long desire.”

[8]. Oft did she go | with grieving heart

On the glacier’s ice | at even-tide,