Straightway her damsels did she call

As weary as she was of mind:

"Come, let us go to the bower aloft

Game and glee for a while to find."

Yea and withal spake Signy,

She spake a word of price:

"To-day shall I do myself to death

And meet Hafbur in Paradise.

"And whoso there be in this our house

Lord Hafbur's death that wrought,