Requital I spurned | when my sorrows were smaller;

Once grim did I seem, | but now greater my grimness,

There was nought seemed too hard | while Hogni was living.

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[68]. “Our childhood did we have | in a single house,

We played many a game, | in the grove did we grow;

Then did Grimhild give us | gold and necklaces;

Thou shalt ne’er make amends | for my brother’s murder,

Nor ever shalt win me | to think it was well.

[69]. “But the fierceness of men | rules the fate of women,