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Updated: May 19, 2025
Hail, Slagfid, Eigil, and Wayland, sang the maidens. Swanvite, Alvilda, and Alruna are sent by the Norns, To bring joy to the princes of Finland. Then the tongues of the young men were unloosed, and Slagfid married Swanvite, Eigil Alruna, and Wayland Alvilda.
I killed them, and of their bones made vessels for your table. Your daughter Badhild is my wife. So have I repaid evil with evil, and our connection is ended." With these words he flew away, while Nidung in great anger cried: "Eigil, shoot at Wayland." "I cannot harm my own brother," replied Eigil. "Shoot," cried the king, "or I will kill you."
Then his brothers stood in its path, and stopped the reindeer, and sang: Because Slagfid struck his reindeer, Because Eigil struck his reindeer, Our hatred shall follow you. A time of weal, a time of woe, a time of grief, a time of joy. Because Wayland also forsook us, Though he struck not the reindeer, A time of weal, a time of woe, a time of grief, a time of joy.
So an apple was placed on the head of Eigil's three-year-old son, and Eigil, taking his bow, aimed, and with the first arrow struck the apple in the center, so that it fell from the child's head. "Why did you have three arrows?" the king asked. "Sire," replied Eigil, "I will not lie to you. If I had pierced my son with the first arrow, the other two would have pierced you."
The king, strange to say, did not take offense at this speech, but on the contrary showed Eigil still greater favor than he had in the past. The archer frequently visited his brother Wayland, but Badhild came but seldom to her husband's house. One day the two came together at Wayland's special request.
The smith slipped the jewel on her finger, gazed into her eyes and said, "This ring you shall keep as well as your own, if you will be my bride." The maiden could not refuse, and so the two were married, agreeing to keep their union a secret. About this time Eigil, the brother of Wayland, came to the court of Nidung.
Finally he knocked his head with such force on the ground that he lost consciousness. When he came to himself Wayland spoke: "Tell me, brother Eigil, do you like the shirt?" "If it were as easy to alight as it is to fly," was the answer, "I should fly away and you would never see me again." "I will alter what is wrong," said the smith, making a slight change in the shirt.
From them he made a flying shirt, clad in which he looked more like an eagle than a man. Eigil admired the workmanship and Wayland asked him to try it. "How shall I rise, how fly, and how alight?" asked Eigil. "You must rise against the wind, and fly first low and then high, but you must alight with the wind." Eigil did as he was told, and had a good deal of trouble in alighting.
Go back to Wayland, or follow Eigil into the river? No. After all I may find my wife. The Norns do not always bring misfortune. As he spoke a light gleamed in the darkness of the night, and, looking up, Slagfid saw it was shed by a bright star which seemed to be drawing nearer to the earth, and the nearer it drew the more its shape seemed to change into a human figure.
But Eigil was impatient and struck his reindeer, that willing beast which flies like the wind and needs not the touch of a whip. It bounded forward in surprise, and knocked down one of the elves that stood in its path. But the hands of his brothers laid hold of the reins, and stopped the reindeer, and sang again,
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