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SONGS FROM THE EDDA.
Within a few nights,
Fey as they are,
A little ere day
Of that draught will they eat.”
Fey as they are,
A little ere day
Of that draught will they eat.”
Ne’er since lay I down,
Ne’er since would I sleep,
Hard of heart, in my bed:—
That deed have I to do.[1]
Ne’er since would I sleep,
Hard of heart, in my bed:—
That deed have I to do.[1]
- ↑ The whole of this latter part is fragmentary and obscure; there seems wanting to two of the dreams some trivial interpretation by Gudrun, like those given by Hogni to Kostbera in the Saga, of which nature, of course, the interpretation contained in the last stanza but one is, as we have rendered it: another rendering, from the different reading of the earlier edition of Edda (Copenhagen, 1818) would make this refer much more directly to the slaying of her sons by Gudrun.
