“Here Borgny lies | in bitter pain,

Thy friend, and, Oddrun, | thy help would find.”

Oddrun spake:

[5]. “Who worked this woe | for the woman thus,

Or why so sudden | is Borgny sick?”

The serving-maid spake:

“Vilmund is he, | the heroes’ friend,

Who wrapped the woman | in bedclothes warm,

(For winters five, | yet her father knew not).”

[6]. Then no more | they spake, methinks;