“From the long road now | shall ye hold her not,

That born again | she may never be!

Foul she came | from her mother forth,

And born she was | for wicked deeds,

(Sorrow to many | a man to bring.)”

[46]. From the speaker gloomily | Gunnar turned,

For the jewel-bearer | her gems was dividing; [[435]]

On all her wealth | her eyes were gazing,

On the bond-women slain | and the slaughtered slaves.

[47]. Her byrnie of gold | she donned, and grim