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,