ying of Ki

o Gothland at the bidding of King Siggeir, and put off from the land in three ships,

an army no man may meet. "And," says she, "he is minded to do guilefully by you; wherefore I bid you get ye gone back again to your own land, and gather together the mightiest pow

om now I am old? Yea withal never shall the maidens mock these my sons at the games, and cry out at them that they fear death; once alone must all men need die, and from that season shall none escape; so my rede is that we flee nowhither, b

ed that she might not go back to Kin

hine husband, and abide with hi

re Siggeir fell on them with all his army, and the fiercest fight there was betwixt them; and Siggeir cried on his men to the onset all he might; and so the tale tells that King Volsung and his sons went eight times right through Siggeir's

was ware withal that her father was slain, and her brothers taken and doom

awhile in the stocks, for home to me comes the saw that says, "Sweet to eye while seen":

swered

n their present slaying; yet this will I grant thee, for the better it likes me t

d there they sit day-long until night; but at midnight, as they sat in the stocks, there came on them a she-wolf from out the wood; old she was, and both

of the tidings; and when he came back he told her that one of them was dead, and great and gri

deal of it in his mouth; so he went to Sigmund and did as he was bidden, and then came home again; and so the next night came the she-wolf according to her wont, and would slay him and eat him even as his brothers; but now she sniffs the breeze from him, whereas he was anointed with the honey, and licks his face all over with her tongue, and then

r of King Siggeir, who had turned herself into this li