About him were warriors | . . . . . . . .

But Guthrun, akin | to the gods of slaughter,

Yielded not to her tears | in the hall of tumult.

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Guthrun spake:

[32]. “It shall go with thee, Atli, | as with Gunnar thou heldest

The oaths ofttimes sworn, | and of old made firm,

By the sun in the south, | by Sigtyr’s mountain,

By the horse of the rest-bed, | and the ring of Ull.”

[33]. Then the champer of bits | drew the chieftain great,