r-winning crowd
Hall-crower (4) waketh.

So Helgi rode his ways: and the others gat them gone home to the house.
But the next night Sigrun bade the bondwoman have heed of the mound. So
at nightfall, thenas Sigrun came to the mound, she sang:

SIGRUN:
Here now would he come,
If to come he were minded;
Sigmund's offspring
From the halls of Odin.
O me the hope waneth
Of Helgi's coming;
For high on the ash-boughs
Are the ernes abiding,
And all folk drift
Toward the Thing of the dreamland.

BONDMAID:
Be not foolish of heart,
And fare all alone
To the house of the dead,
O Hero's daughter!
For more strong and dreadful
In the night season
Are all dead warriors
Than in the daylight.

But a little while lived Sigrun, because of her sorrow and trouble.
But in old time folk trowed that men should be born again, though their
troth be now deemed but an old wife's dotting. And so, as folk say,
Helgi and Sigrun were born again, and at that tide was he called Helgi
the Scathe of Hadding, and she Kara the daughter of Halfdan; and she was
a Valkyrie, even as is said in the Lay of Kara.

ENDNOTES:
(1) Only that part of the song is given which completes the
episodes of Helgi Hunding's-bane; the earlier part of the
song differs little from the Saga.
(2) Hogni, the father of Dar and Sigrun, had been slain by Helgi
in battle, and Helgi had given peace to, and taken oaths of
Dag.
(3) One of the rivers of the under-world.
(4) Hall-crower, "Salgofnir": lit. Hall-gaper, the cock of
Valhall.

PART OF THE LAY OF SIGRDRIFA (1)

Now this is my first counsel,
That thou with thy kin
Be guiltless, guileless ever,
Nor hasty of wrath,
Despite of wrong done--
Unto the dead good that doeth.

Lo the second counsel,
That oath thou swearest never,
But trusty oath and true:
Grim tormenting
Gripes troth-breakers;
Cursed wretch is the wolf of vows.

This is my third rede,
That thou at the Thing
Deal not with the fools of folk;
For unwise man
From mouth lets fall
Worser word than well he wotteth.

Yet hard it is
That holding of peace
When men shall deem thee dastard,
Or deem the lie said soothly;
But woeful is home-witness,