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Updated: May 22, 2025
Then he mounted the noble Greyfell and rode with a light heart across the flowery meadows. "Whither ridest thou?" cried Gripir the ancient, from his doorway among the crags. "I ride into the wide world," said Siegfried; "but I know not whither. I would right the wrong, and help the weak, and make myself a name on the earth, as did my kinsmen of yore.
Then he looked to the west, and nothing met his sight but a wilderness of rolling, restless waters, save, in the far distance, a green island half hidden by sullen mists and clouds. And Siegfried sighed, and said, "The world is so wide, and the life of man so short!" "The world is all before thee," answered Gripir. "Take what the Norns have allotted thee.
Tell me, I pray you, where I shall go; for you are wise, and you know the things which have been, and those which shall befall." "Ride back to Regin, the master of masters," answered Gripir. "He will tell thee of a wrong to be righted." And the ancient son of the giants withdrew into his lonely abode; and Siegfried, on the shining Greyfell, rode swiftly away towards the south.
"Thou hast not told me of thy errand," said Gripir; "but I know what it is. Come first with me, and see this great mid-world for thyself." Then Gripir, leaning on his staff, led the way out of the great hall, and up to the top of the highest mountain-crag.
And in the deep dales between the mountains were rich meadows, green with grass, and speckled with thousands of flowers of every hue, where herds of cattle and deer, and noble elks, and untamed horses, fed in undisturbed peace. And Siegfried, when he saw, knew that these were the pastures of Gripir the ancient.
"Put on these garments, which better befit a prince than those soot-begrimed clothes you have worn so long. Gird about you this sword, the good Balmung, and go northward. When you come to the waste lands which border upon the sea, you will find the ancient Gripir, the last of the kin of the giants. Ask of him a war-steed, and Odin will tell you the rest."
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