For me, and the burden | that Grani bore;

But Atli said | he would never receive

Marriage gold | from Gjuki’s son.

[a]21]. “Yet could we not | our love o’ercome,

And my head I laid | on the hero’s shoulder;

Many there were | of kinsmen mine

Who said that together | us they had seen.

[a]22]. “Atli said | that never I

Would evil plan, | or ill deed do;

But none may this | of another think,