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And as Jack watched, horrified and sick, the shards of flame came back together. And there was the globe again with Grim Hagen and Maya as whole as ever. And a green streak of fire one of Gunnar's misses went careening off into space until it shrank to a pinpoint of light and then vanished. At a signal from Ato, the firing stopped. Grim Hagen was still laughing. "You are wasting your energy, Ato.
'Who can tell who will fear most at the sound of that singing? But this you know well, that when the fight has begun Gunnar does not give his bill much time to sing! Now when Skamkell reached Mossfell, he told truly to Gizur the white the offers Gunnar had made. 'Why did not Otkell accept them? asked Gizur, 'they were generous and noble, as Gunnar's offers are.
They offer her much treasure, if she will marry Atli. At first she refuses and thinks only of revenge, but finally she consents and the marriage is celebrated in Atli's land. After a time Atli, who is envious of Gunnar's riches, for the latter had taken possession of Sigurd's hoard, invites him to his court.
Both were tall, brave men, but there was not Gunnar's like in all the country round for beauty, and for skill in shooting, jumping, and swimming. And, besides this, he was beautiful and gentle, faithful to the friends he made, but not making them readily. His chief friend was Njal, from whom he ever sought counsel, for Njal was a wise man and could see far into the future.
The circumstances of Siegfried's death are likewise totally different in the two versions. In the Norse, as we have seen, he is murdered while asleep in bed, by Gunnar's younger brother Gutthorm. In our poem he is killed by Hagen, while bending over a spring to drink.
Then Mord left Hauskuld the priest, and had ready a long tale, how that Hauskuld had meant to burn them while they sat at a feast in Whiteness, had not Hogni, Gunnar's son, come by. And as this plan had failed, he set about gathering his men together to slay his brothers as they rode home, but neither Grani, son of Gunnar, nor Gunnar, son of Lambi, had the heart to do it.
He knew him, and I have heard that he came here to warn Hodulf that his time was come." Hodulf's face grew whiter when he heard that; but it was what he needed, as some sort of excuse to let loose his passion. White and shaking with wrath and fear, he rose up and he cried, "Murdered is Griffin! Ho, warriors, let not these go forth!" Whereon the old chief lifted his voice also, "Ho, Gunnar's men!
Oddrun's Lament, in which Gunnar's death is caused by an intrigue with Atli's sister Oddrun, marks the disintegration of the Volsung legend. Gudrun's Lament and Hamthismal belong to the Ermanric cycle. Volsung Paraphrases. Nibelungenlied. Signy and Siggeir.
Also he had heard of the great booty of Welsh gold that Gunnar had taken thence in the last summer; and so, when these Welsh asked that he would bide with them and help fight the next Danes who came, he had offered to do more than that -he would lead them to Gunnar's place if they would find men to man three ships that he had taken, and would be content to share the booty with them.
While the nurse told Withelm to fetch the priest when Alsi was in the hall that evening, the housecarl came for Havelok; and much wondering, he followed the man to the king, and presently stood before him and saluted. "Where did you get that salute?" said Alsi sharply, seeing at once that it was not English; and, indeed, it was that of Gunnar's courtmen. "I cannot tell," answered my brother.
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