Page:Five Pieces of Runic Poetry.djvu/41

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.

[ 20 ]

touch but the edges of it, there is poison in them both: it is a most cruel devourer of men.


Hervor.

I shall keep, and take in hand, the sharp sword, which thou hast let me have: I do not fear, O slain father, about what my sons may hereafter quarrel.


Angantyr.

Farewel, daughter: I do quickly give thee twelve men’s death: if thou canst believe with might and courage: even all the goods, which Andgrym’s sons left behind them.


Hervor.

Dwell all of you safe in the tomb. I must be gone, and hasten hence; for I seem to be in the midst of a place where fire burneth round about me.