“Take counsel wise, | for brave ones are come,

Of mighty men | thou the sister didst murder.”

[22]. Then Jormunrek laughed, | his hand laid on his beard,

His arms, for with wine | he was warlike, he called for;

He shook his brown locks, | on his white shield he looked,

And raised high the cup | of gold in his hand.

[23]. “Happy, methinks, | were I to behold

Hamther and Sorli | here in my hall; [[553]]

The men would I bind | with strings of bows,

And Gjuki’s heirs | on the gallows hang.”