r,
When I keep not my tryst as of yore

*I left the youthful Ingibjoerg
Upon that fateful day,
When rashly we placed our fortunes
In the hands of Destiny.
O heavy will be the maiden's grief,
The sorrow she must endure
When she knows I have fallen in battle,
And will enter her hall no more.

From the tree tops away to the Eastward
There gather a loathly brood:--
Raven and eagle are swooping
To wet their bills in my blood.
Full many a feast has the eagle had
Of carrion slain by me:
I have fought my last fight,
And I pass to the night;
And now he shall feast on me.

Then Hjalmar died[4]. Odd brought the tidings to Sweden; and the
King's daughter could not bear to live after Hjalmar, so she took her
own life. Angantyr and his brothers were laid in a barrow in Samso
with all their weapons.

[Footnote 1: Printed in Wimmer's _Oldnordisk Laesebog_ (4th
ed.) p. 29 ff. The poetry is also found, though with
many divergent readings, in _Oervar-Odds Saga_, ch. 14
_(Fornaldarsoegur_, Vol. II, p. 217 ff.).]

[Footnote 2: In late (paper) MSS. the following passage is
here added.--"Angantyr said: 'It is my wish that if any of
us escapes from here we should not rob one another of our
weapons. If I die, I wish to have Tyrfing in the barrow
with me. Odd likewise shall have his shirt and Hjalmar his
weapons!' And they agreed that those who were left alive were
to raise a barrow for the others."

Then follows a long description of the fighting.]

[Footnote 3: This poem is given more fully in _Oervar-Odds
Saga_ than in _Hervarar Saga_. The strophes which occur only
in the former are marked with an asterisk. I have re-arranged
the order of the stanzas, in regard to which there is
considerable variation between the two texts.]

[Footnote 4: In paper MSS. the following passage occurs here:

"Odd remained there all night. In the morning he brought
together the bodies of all the berserks and then set about
building barrows. The islanders built chambers of great oaks
as Odd directed them, and then piled up stones and sand on
the top. They were strongly constructed, and it was a great
achievement. Odd was busy at this work for a fortnight. Then
he placed the berserks in with their weapons and closed the
barrows. After this Odd took Hjalmar's body and carried it t