Looked on the heaps of Vánar slain,

Saw where, triumphant in the fight,

Thronged the fierce rovers of the night,

And Vánar chieftains, mournful-eyed,

Watched by the fallen brothers' side.

There stretched upon his gory bed

Each brother lay as lie the dead,

With shattered mail and splintered bow

Pierced by the arrows of the foe.

When on the pair her eyes she bent,