Asatru Folk Assembly - Atlamál En Grönlenzku, a reading

00:00:00.000 Atle Mall in Groenlin school, the Greenland Ballad of Atri,

00:00:27.840 Many of the chief facts regarding the Atlemar, which follows the Atlecvitha in the Codex Regius,

00:00:37.780 are outlined in the introductory note to the earlier Atlele.

00:00:43.260 That the superscription in the manuscript is correct, and that the poem was actually composed in Greenland, is generally accepted.

00:00:53.120 The specific reference to polar bears, stanza 17, and the general color of the entire poem make this origin exceedingly likely.

00:01:05.140 Most critics, again, agree in dating the poem nearer 1100 than on 1050.

00:01:12.280 As to its state of preservation, there is some dispute, but barring one or two possible gaps of some importance, and the usual number of passages in which the interpolation or omission of one or two lines may be suspected, the Atlamal has clearly come down to us in fairly good shape.

00:01:38.240 Throughout the poem, the epic quality of the story itself is overshadowed by the romantically sentimental tendencies of the poet,

00:01:49.360 and by his desire to adapt the narrative to the understanding of his fellow Greenlanders.

00:01:56.120 The substance of the poem is the same as that of the Adla Kvitha.

00:02:00.860 It tells of Adli's message to the sons of Gyuki, their journey to Adli's home,

00:02:06.400 the slaying of Hogni and Gunnar,

00:02:09.820 Guthrun's bitterness over the death of her brothers,

00:02:12.360 and her bloody revenge on Notley.

00:02:15.780 Thus, in its bare outline, the Atomal represents simply the

00:02:20.480 Frankish blending of the legends of the slaughter of the Burgundians

00:02:24.580 and the death of Attila.

00:02:26.680 See Grapispa introductory note.

00:02:29.720 But here the resemblance ends.

00:02:32.760 The poet has added characters, apparently of his own creation, for the sake of episodes which would appeal to both the men and the women of Greenland Settlement.

00:02:44.880 Sea voyages take the place of journeys by land.

00:02:49.100 Atli is reproached, not for cowardice in battle, but for weakness at the thing, or great counsel.

00:02:56.320 The editions made by the poet are responsible for the art emol being the longest of all the heroic poems in the edit collection, and they give it a kind of emotional vividness, but it has little of the compressed intensity of the older poems.

00:03:15.800 Its greatest interest lies in its demonstration of the manner in which a story brought to the North from the South's Romantic lungs could be adapted to the understanding and tastes of its 11th century hearers without any material change of the basic narrative.

00:03:35.200 In what form or forms the story of the Gjukings and Atli reached the Greenland poet cannot be determined,

00:03:45.260 but it seems likely that he was familiar with the older poems on the subject and possibly with the Atlequitha itself.

00:03:56.240 But the details which are peculiar to the Atlamal,

00:04:00.600 such as the figures of Kostbera and Glaumvul,

00:04:04.860 existed in earlier traditions seems doubtful.

00:04:08.240 But the son of Hogni, who aids Guthrun in the slaying of Adli,

00:04:13.400 appears, though under a different name,

00:04:16.960 in other late versions of the story.

00:04:20.140 And it is impossible to say just how much the poet relied

00:04:24.160 on his own imagination, and how far he found suggestions and hints

00:04:30.240 in the prose or verse stories of Atli with which he was familiar.

00:04:35.660 The poem is in Malahatar, see the introduction, throughout,

00:04:42.000 the verse being far more regular in the Alakvitha.

00:04:46.380 The compilers of the Volsunga saga evidently knew it in very much the form in which we now have it,

00:04:54.160 For, in the main, it is paraphrased with great fidelity.

00:05:00.700 Atlamar in Grunlandskul

00:05:02.820 There are many who know, how of old did men in council gather, little good did they get.

00:05:13.000 In secret they plotted, it was sore for them later, and for Gukki's sons, whose trust they deceived.

00:05:22.080 Fate grew for the princes, to death they were given

00:05:27.300 Ill counsel was Otley's, though keenness he had

00:05:31.900 He felled his staunch bulwark, his own sorrow fashioned

00:05:37.500 Soon a message he sent, that his kinsmen should seek him

00:05:43.860 Wise was the woman, she fain would use wisdom

00:05:47.720 home. She saw well what meant all they said in secret. From her heart it was hid how help 0.97

00:05:56.320 she might render. The sea they should sail, while herself should go not.

00:06:05.540 Runes did she fashion, but false Vingi made them. The spear of hatred e'er to give them

00:06:14.000 he sought. Then soon fared the warriors whom Atli had sent, and to Limefjord came, to the

00:06:22.840 home of the kings. They were kindly with ale, and fires were they kindled. They thought

00:06:30.380 not of craft from the guests who had come. The gifts did they take, that the noble one

00:06:37.740 gave them. On the pillars they hung them, no fear did they harbor.

00:06:44.860 Forth did Kostbera, wife of Hogni, then come. Full kindly she was, and she welcomed them

00:06:52.400 both. And glad too was Glamvor, the wife of Gunnar. She knew well to care for the needs

00:07:01.400 of the guests.

00:07:03.720 Then Hogni they asked, if more eager he were, for clearer was the guile, if on guard they

00:07:11.260 had been.

00:07:12.260 Then Gunnar made promise if Hogni would go, and Hogni made answer as the others counseled.

00:07:21.560 Then though famed ones brought mead, and fairer was the feast, for many were the horns, till

00:07:28.840 the men had drunk deep, then the mates made ready their beds for resting.

00:07:37.280 Wise was Cospera and Cunningham Runecraft, the letters which she read by the light of

00:07:44.720 the fire, put full quickly her tongue to her pallid clave, so strange did they seem that

00:07:53.160 their meaning she saw not.

00:07:56.980 Full soon in his bed came Hogni to seek.

00:08:01.200 The clear-souled one dreamed, and her dream she kept not.

00:08:07.340 To the warrior the wise one spake when she wakened.

00:08:13.400 Thou would go hence, Hogni, but heed my counsel, known to few other runes, and put off thy

00:08:20.500 firing.

00:08:22.420 I have read now the runes that thy sister wrote, and this time the Bright One did not

00:08:28.600 bid thee to come.

00:08:31.420 For much do I wonder, nor well can I see, Why the woman wise so wildly hath written.

00:08:39.980 But to me it seems that the meaning beneath Is that both shall be slain, if soon ye shall

00:08:47.380 go, but one rune she missed, or else others have marred it.

00:08:54.560 Hogni spake. 0.99

00:08:57.000 All women are fearful, not so do I fear, ill I seek not, till I soon must avenge it. 1.00

00:09:05.480 The king now will give us the glow-ruddy gold, I never shall fear, though of dangers I know. 0.90

00:09:15.260 Prospera spake, Endanger ye fair, if forth ye go hither,

00:09:22.820 No welcoming friendly, this time shall ye find, For I dream now, Hogni, and nought will I

00:09:31.220 hide, Full evil thy faring, if rightly I fear.

00:09:37.860 Thy bed-covering saw I in the flames burning, And the fire burst high through the walls

00:09:46.040 of my home.

00:09:48.860 Hogni spake, Yon garment of linen lies little worth,

00:09:56.360 Till soon be burned, so thou saw'st the bed-cover. 0.66

00:10:01.260 Prospera spake, a bear saw enter the pillars he broke, and he brandished his claws, so

00:10:09.840 that Clavin we were.

00:10:12.460 With his mouth seized he many, and nought was our might, and loud was the tumult, not

00:10:19.940 little it was. 0.57

00:10:23.860 Ogni spake, now a storm is brewing, and wild it grows swiftly.

00:10:30.180 The dream of an ice bear means a gale from the east.

00:10:35.500 Cospera spake, an evil I saw flying from the inn through the house.

00:10:42.740 Our fate must be boughed, for with blood he sprinkled us,

00:10:48.100 From the evil I fear that twas aughty spirit. 0.99

00:10:53.300 Pogni spake, they will slaughter soon, and so blood do we see,

00:10:59.400 Of the oxen it means, when of eagerness one dreams.

00:11:04.240 True is Atle's heart, whatever thou dreamest.

00:11:09.620 Then silent they were, and not further they said.

00:11:14.780 The highborn ones wakened, and little speech they had.

00:11:18.440 Then did Glamvor tell how in terror she dreamed, Gunnar two roads they should go.

00:11:28.160 A gallows saw I ready, Thou didst go to thy hanging.

00:11:36.800 Thy flesh serpents ate, And yet living I found thee.

00:11:41.600 The gods doom descended, Now say what it boded.

00:11:48.440 A sword drawn bloody, From thy garments I saw,

00:11:52.040 Since a dream is hard, oh, a husband to tell, A spear stood, methought, though thy body

00:12:00.760 thrust, And in head and feet the wolves were howling.

00:12:07.020 Gunnar spake.

00:12:10.020 The hounds are running, loud their barking is, Oft hounds' clamor follows the flying

00:12:18.920 of spears.

00:12:19.880 Glamvor spake, a river the length of the hall saw I run, full swiftly it roared, or the

00:12:32.120 benches it swept, or the feet did it break of ye brothers twain.

00:12:39.200 The water would yield not some meaning there was.

00:12:46.300 I dreamed that by night came dead woman hither.

00:12:51.820 Sad were their garments, and thee were they seeking.

00:12:57.060 They bade thee come swiftly forth to their benches, and nothing, methinks, could the

00:13:03.140 Norns avail thee.

00:13:07.100 Gunnar spake.

00:13:09.860 Too late is thy speaking, for so it is settled.

00:13:15.340 the firing I turn not, the going is fixed, though likely it is that our lives shall be

00:13:23.580 short.

00:13:26.960 Then bright shone the morning, the men all were ready, they said, yet each would the

00:13:33.360 other hold back.

00:13:36.100 Five were the warriors, and their followers all but twice as many.

00:13:41.900 Their minds knew not wisdom. 1.00

00:13:45.280 Snivar and Soluar, they were the sons of Hogni. 0.99

00:13:49.960 Orkning was he called, who came with the others.

00:13:54.900 Blythe was the shield-tree and brother of Kostbera.

00:13:59.560 The fair-decked ones followed till the fjord divided them. 0.99

00:14:04.620 Full hard did they plead, but the others would hear not.

00:14:10.520 Then did Glamvor speak forth, the wife of Gunnar, To Vingi said, that which wise to

00:14:18.840 her seemed, I know not if well thou requitest our welcome,

00:14:25.760 For ill was thy coming, if evil shall follow.

00:14:31.040 Then did Vingi swear, and full glib was his speech, May giants now take me, if lies I

00:14:38.400 I have told ye, and the gallows of hostile thought did I have.

00:14:45.640 Then did Bera speak forth, and fair was her thought.

00:14:51.880 May ye sail now happy, and victory have, to fair as I bid ye, may not your way bar.

00:15:02.160 Then Hogni made answer, dear held he his kin.

00:15:08.040 Take courage, ye wise ones, whatsoever may come.

00:15:13.580 Though many may speak, yet is evil oft mighty, and words aver little to lead one homeward.

00:15:24.100 They tenderly looked till each turned on his way, then with changing fate were their fairings

00:15:30.940 divided. Full stoutly they rowed, and the keel clove asunder. Their backs strained at

00:15:39.420 the oars, and their strength was fierce. The oar loops were burst, the thole pins were

00:15:47.580 broken. Though the ship made they fast, ere from her they fared. Not long was it after,

00:15:57.120 the end must I tell, that the home they beheld that Boothly once had. 0.57

00:16:04.120 Loud the gates resounded when Hogni smote them, Vigni smake then a word that was better

00:16:11.680 unsaid.

00:16:12.680 Go ye far from the house, for false is its interests. 0.99

00:16:21.400 Soon shall I burn you, ye are swiftly smitten. 0.97

00:16:25.640 I bade ye come fairly, but falseness was us under. 0.99

00:16:31.280 Now bide ye afar, while the gallows I fashion.

00:16:37.040 Then Hogni made answer, his heart yielded little,

00:16:41.160 And naught did he fear that his fate held in store.

00:16:46.160 Seek not to arthritis, thou shalt seldom succeed.

00:16:53.140 If thy words are more, then the worst grows thy fate. 0.93

00:16:59.960 Then Vingy did they smite, and they sent him to hell. 0.99

00:17:04.880 With their axes they clothed him, while the death-rattle came. 0.96

00:17:10.820 Utley summoned his men, and mail-coats they hastened.

00:17:14.820 Already they came, and between was the courtyard.

00:17:18.340 Then came they the words, and full wrathful they were, Long since did he will plan how 0.97

00:17:27.220 soon we might slay you.

00:17:31.460 Hogni spake, Little matters, if long ye have planned it. 0.99

00:17:38.240 For unarmed do ye wait, and one have we felled. 1.00

00:17:43.180 We smote him to hell, of the your host was he once. 0.97

00:17:47.100 Then wild was their anger. 0.74

00:17:50.780 When all heard his words, their fingers were swift on their bow-strings to seize, for sharply

00:17:57.480 they shot, by their shields were they guarded.

00:18:01.780 In the house came the word, how the heroes without fought in front of the hall.

00:18:08.920 They heard a thrall tell it.

00:18:11.920 Grim then was Guthrung, Grif when she hurried,

00:18:17.960 With necklaces fair had she flung them all from her,

00:18:22.500 The silver she hurled, till the rings burst asunder.

00:18:28.700 Then out did she go, she flung open the doors,

00:18:32.420 All fearless she went, and I guess did she welcome,

00:18:37.320 To the Nifflung she went, her last greeting it was.

00:18:41.200 In her speech truth was clear, and much would she speak. 0.70

00:18:48.780 For your safety I sought, that at home ye would stay.

00:18:55.040 None escapes his fate, so ye hither must fare.

00:19:00.860 Full wisely she spake, if yet peace they might win.

00:19:05.280 But in naught would they hearken, And no, said they all.

00:19:12.280 Then the highborn one saw That hard was their battle.

00:19:16.360 In fierceness of heart She flung off her mantle.

00:19:21.580 Her naked sword grasped she Her kin's lives to guard,

00:19:27.540 Not gentle her hands in the hewing of battle. 0.75

00:19:30.620 Then the daughter of Gyuki, two warriors, smote down. 0.65

00:19:35.840 Atli's brother she slew, and forth, then they bore him. 0.67

00:19:42.340 So fiercely she fought that his feet she clove off. 0.98

00:19:47.400 Another she smote, so that never he stood. 0.98

00:19:51.000 To hell did she send him.

00:19:53.620 Her hands trembled never.

00:19:57.100 Full wide was the fame of the battle they fought.

00:20:00.020 "'Twas the greatest of deeds of the sons of Kyuki. 0.98

00:20:04.220 "'Men say that the Nifrungs, while themselves they were living, 0.87

00:20:08.520 "'with their swords fought mightily, 0.98

00:20:10.580 "'mailcoats they sundered, and helms did they hew,

00:20:13.700 "'as their hearts were fearless.

00:20:17.080 "'All the morning they fought, until midday shone.

00:20:21.720 "'All the dusk is as well, and the dawning of day.

00:20:26.320 "'When the battle was ended, the field flowed with blood.

00:20:30.020 Ere they fell, eighteen of their foemen were slain, by the two sons of Bera, and her brother

00:20:37.920 as well.

00:20:43.580 Then the warrior spake, and wild was his anger, This is evil to see, and thy doing is all.

00:20:53.140 Once we were thirty, we thanes came through battle, now eleven are left, and great is

00:21:00.460 our lack.

00:21:01.460 There were five of us brothers, when briefly we lost, now hell has the half, and two smitten

00:21:11.180 lie here.

00:21:12.180 A great kinship had I, the truth may I had not, from a wife bringing slaughter, small

00:21:20.760 How joy could I win?

00:21:23.660 We lay seldom together, since to me thou hast given.

00:21:28.120 Now my kin all are gone, of my gold am I robbed.

00:21:33.000 Nay, when wast thou didst send my sister to hell.

00:21:40.280 Guthrun spake, Hear me now, Atali, the first evil was thine.

00:21:47.500 my mother did thou take, and for gold didst murder her.

00:21:53.560 My sister's daughter thou didst starve in prison, a jest does it seem, that thy sorrow 0.53

00:22:01.320 thou tell'st, and good to do I find, it that grief to thee comes."

00:22:09.540 Otley spake, Go now, ye warriors, and make greater the grief

00:22:16.560 Of the woman so fair, for fain would I see it.

00:22:20.680 So fierce be thy warring, that Guthrun shall weep, and would gladly behold her happiness

00:22:26.860 lost.

00:22:29.400 Seize ye now Hogni, and with knives shall ye hew him, his heart shall ye cut out this 0.84

00:22:35.680 haste ye to do. And grim-hearted Gunnar shall ye bind on the gallows. Swift shall ye do

00:22:43.800 it, the serpents now cast him.

00:22:48.140 Hogni spake, Do not as thou wilt, for glad I await it. Brave shalt thou find me, and

00:22:58.140 I have faced worse before. We held thee at bay, while whole we were fighting. Now with

00:23:04.600 And wounds are we spent, so thy will canst thou work.

00:23:10.760 Then did Bates he speak, he was utterly stuart.

00:23:16.500 Let us seize now, Hjali, and Ogni spare we. 1.00

00:23:21.920 Let us feld the sluggard, he is fit for death. 1.00

00:23:26.480 He has lived to too long, and lazy men call him. 1.00

00:23:32.980 was the pot-watcher, he fled here and yawn, and crazed with terror, he climbed in the

00:23:38.700 corners. 0.97

00:23:39.700 Ill for me is the fighting, if I pay for your fierceness, and sad is the day to die

00:23:48.560 leaving my spine, and all the fair victuals that of old did I have.

00:23:56.960 They seized Book Boothley's cook, And they came with the knife,

00:24:01.440 The frightened thrall, howled, Ere the edge did he feel,

00:24:06.560 He was willing, he cried, To dung while the courtyard,

00:24:11.900 Do the basest of work, If spare him they would, 0.90

00:24:16.620 Full happy were Yali, If his life he might have. 0.97

00:24:23.020 When fain was Hogni, there are few would do thus, To beg for the slave, that safe hence 0.96

00:24:30.140 he should go.

00:24:33.560 I would find it far better this knife-play to feel, Why must we all hark to this howling

00:24:40.400 longer?

00:24:43.460 Then the brave one they seized, to the warrior's bold, No chance was there left to delay his

00:24:50.080 fate longer.

00:24:52.460 Loud did Hognar laugh, all the sons of day heard him.

00:24:58.140 So valiant he was, that well he could suffer.

00:25:04.080 A harp Gunar seized, with his toes he smote it.

00:25:09.220 So well did he strike that the women all wept, and the men when clear they heard it lamented.

00:25:16.440 Full noble was his song, the rafters burst asunder, And the heroes died, and their day

00:25:23.720 was yet come, Their fame did they leave, ever lofty to live.

00:25:31.660 Full mighty seemed oddly, as o'er them he stood, The wise one he blamed, and his words reproached

00:25:39.720 her.

00:25:40.720 It is morning, Guthrun, now thy dear ones dost mist.

00:25:46.820 But the blame is part thine, that thus sin hath chanced.

00:25:52.340 Guthrun spake, Thou art joyous, Otley, for of evil thou tellest.

00:25:59.000 But sorrow is thine, if thou mightest all see.

00:26:03.900 The heritage heavy, here can I tell thee, Sorrow never thou losest, and slest I shall

00:26:13.720 die.

00:26:16.320 Oughty spake, Not three of guilt am I.

00:26:21.820 Away shall I find, That is better by far, off the fairest we shunned.

00:26:29.660 With slaves I console thee, With the gems fares to see,

00:26:35.600 And with silver snow-white, As thyself thou shalt choose.

00:26:41.980 Guthrin spake, No help shall these to give,

00:26:47.980 Thy gifts I shall take not, Were quite till I spurned,

00:26:52.220 When my sorrows were smaller.

00:26:54.820 Once grim did I see, But now greater my grimness.

00:26:58.800 There was naught seemed too hard while Hogni was living.

00:27:03.340 What childhood did we have in a single house?

00:27:06.520 We played many a game in the grove did we grow.

00:27:11.040 Then did Grimhild give us gold in necklaces.

00:27:15.080 Thou shalt ne'er make amends for my brother's murder,

00:27:19.360 Nor ever shalt win me to think it was well. 1.00

00:27:25.640 But the fierceness of men rules the fate of women. 1.00

00:27:29.780 The treetop bows low if bereft of its leaves. 1.00

00:27:34.100 The tree bends over if the roots are cleft under it.

00:27:38.640 Now mayest thou haughty, for all things here rule.

00:27:44.580 Full heedless the warrior was that he trusted her.

00:27:48.380 So clear was her guile if on guard he had been.

00:27:52.380 What crafty was Guthrun, what cunning she spake, Her glance she made pleasant with two shields

00:27:59.000 she played.

00:28:01.660 The beer then she brought for her brother's death-feast, And a feast oddly made for his

00:28:07.580 followers dead.

00:28:09.900 No more did they speak, the meat was made ready, Soon the men were gathered with mighty uproar. 0.99

00:28:18.040 This bitterly planned she, and Bulli's race threatened, and terrible vengeance on her 0.97

00:28:23.600 husband would take. 0.98

00:28:26.100 The little ones called she, on a block she laid them, afraid were the proud ones, but

00:28:32.660 their tears did not fall.

00:28:35.680 To their mother's arms went they, and asked what she should. 0.98

00:28:40.100 Guthryn spake, Nay, ask me no more, you both shall I murder. 0.96

00:28:46.700 Never long have I wished your lives to steal from you. 0.99

00:28:51.420 The boys spake, Slay the boys as thou wilt, for no one may bar it,

00:28:58.380 Short the angry one's peace, if all thou shalt do. 0.70

00:29:03.360 Then the grim one slew both of the brothers young, 1.00

00:29:07.180 Full hard were her deed, When their heads she smote off.

00:29:12.020 Fain was Otley to know, whither now they were gone, the boys from their sport, from nowhere

00:29:18.740 he spied.

00:29:21.260 Guthrun spake, My fate shall I seek, all to Otley saying,

00:29:27.420 The daughter of Grimhild the deed from thee hides not,

00:29:31.780 No joy thou hast Otley, if all thou shalt hear, Great sorrow didst wake,

00:29:38.360 My brothers thou slewest.

00:29:41.700 I have seldom slept since the hour they were slain.

00:29:45.240 Baleful were their threats, now I bid thee recall them.

00:29:50.140 Thou didst say it was morning to what I remember.

00:29:54.360 Now is evening come, and this question thou askest.

00:29:59.100 Now both of thy sons thou hast lost, as thou never shalt do.

00:30:05.580 The skulls of thy boys thou as bittercups didst have,

00:30:10.740 And the draught that I made thee was mixed with their blood. 0.78

00:30:15.320 I cut out their hearts, on a spit I cooked them. 0.79

00:30:19.280 I came to thee with them, and calf's flesh I called them.

00:30:24.500 Alone didst thou eat them, nor any didst leave.

00:30:28.740 Thou didst greedily bite, and thy teeth were busy.

00:30:33.460 Of thy sons now thou knowest, for suffer more sorrow.

00:30:39.580 My guilt have I told, Fame I never shall give me.

00:30:45.040 Oddly spake, Grim wast thou, Guthryn, and so grievous the deed.

00:30:52.140 My draught was the blood of thy boys to mingle.

00:30:55.620 Thou slain thy own kin, Most ill it be seen thee,

00:31:00.340 And little for me twixt my sorrows thou leavest. 0.84

00:31:04.480 Gutheran spake, Still more would I seek to slay thee myself.

00:31:12.780 Enough ill comes seldom to such as thou art, Thou didst folly of old, such that no one

00:31:20.700 shall find, In the whole world of men a match for such madness.

00:31:29.180 Now this that of late we learned hast thou added, Great evil hast gasped, and thine own

00:31:36.620 death feast made.

00:31:40.360 Otley spake, With fire shall they burn thee, and first shall they stone thee, so then hast 0.55

00:31:49.180 thou earned what thou ever hast sought for.

00:31:55.280 Guthrun spake, Such woes for thyself shalt thou say in the morning,

00:32:01.880 And a finer deaf eye to another light fair.

00:32:07.400 Together they sat, and full grim were their thoughts,

00:32:12.560 Unfriendly to their words, and no joys ever found.

00:32:16.520 In hnithlung guru hatred great plans did he have.

00:32:21.380 To Guthrun his anger against Otli was told.

00:32:25.880 To her heart came ever the fate of Hogni.

00:32:29.160 She told him to her well if his vengeance should win. 0.73

00:32:33.380 So was Otli slain, t'was not slow to await. 0.73

00:32:37.560 Hogni's son slew him and Guthrun herself.

00:32:41.560 Then the warrior spake as from slumber he wakened.

00:32:46.140 Soon he knew for his wounds what the bandage do not.

00:32:50.380 what now the truth shalt thou say who has slain bootly's son for sore am i smitten nor hope can i see

00:33:03.500 Guthryn spake, Ne'er heard ye from thee hides the daughter

00:33:11.240 of Grimhild, I own to the guilt that is ending thy life,

00:33:17.520 And the son of Hogni, Dish though thy wounds bleed.

00:33:23.460 Oughty spake, To murder hast thou fared, Thou foul, it seemed, must,

00:33:32.700 Ill thy friend to betray who trusted thee well.

00:33:38.180 Not glad whence I hence thy hand to seek, Guthrum, And thy widowhood feigned.

00:33:47.020 But haughty men found thee, my belief did not lie, as now we have learned.

00:33:54.900 I brought thee home hither, and the host of women with us.

00:33:59.900 Most noble was all when of old we journeyed.

00:34:03.780 Great honor did we have of heroes for worthy.

00:34:07.480 Of cattle had we plenty, and greatly we prospered.

00:34:11.200 Mighty was our wealth, and many had received it.

00:34:15.140 To the fame won, as bridegift I gave jewels of fair, I gave thirty slaves and handmaiden

00:34:22.140 seven.

00:34:24.240 There were honor in such gifts, yet the silver was greater.

00:34:29.420 But all to thee was as if not if it were, while the land lay before thee that Boothley

00:34:36.080 I left me.

00:34:38.940 Thou in secret didst work, to the treasure I won not.

00:34:45.140 My mother full oft sit weeping dis make, no wedded joy found I in fullness of heart.

00:34:53.960 Guthrun spake, Thou liest now, Otley, though little I heed it.

00:35:01.800 If I seldom was kindly, full cruel wast thou.

00:35:06.360 Yet brothers fought young, and quarrels brought you to battle,

00:35:10.520 And half went to hell of the sons of thy house,

00:35:14.200 And all was destroyed that should e'er have done good.

00:35:19.760 My two brothers and I were bold in our thoughts,

00:35:22.800 From the land we went forth, with Sigurd we fared,

00:35:27.420 Full swiftly we sailed, each one steering his ship.

00:35:31.240 So our fate sought we ever, till we came to the east.

00:35:37.580 First the king did we slay, and the land we seized.

00:35:41.180 The princes did us service, for such was their fear.

00:35:45.000 In the forest we called, then we fain would have guiltless, and rich made we many, who

00:35:53.400 of all were bereft. 0.90

00:35:56.460 Slain was the Hun king.

00:35:59.900 Soon happiness vanished, and her grief the widow so young sat weeping.

00:36:06.480 It worse seemed a sorrow to see Achilles' house, A hero was my husband, and hard was

00:36:13.240 his loss.

00:36:14.240 From the thing came thou never, For thus have we heard,

00:36:23.240 One in thy quarrels are warriors smitten, Full yielding thou wast, never firm was thy

00:36:30.860 Will, and silence didst suffer.

00:36:36.960 Otley spake, Thou liest now, Guthron, but little of good,

00:36:44.240 Wilt bring to either, for all have we lost.

00:36:49.400 Let Guthrin yet once be thou kindly of will, for the honor of both, when forth I am home.

00:36:58.040 Guthrin spake, A ship will I buy, and a bright-hued coffin.

00:37:06.840 I will wax well the shroud, To wind round thy body,

00:37:12.720 For all would like hair, as if dear were we ever.

00:37:19.440 Then did Otley die, and his heir's grief doubled.

00:37:24.220 The high-born one did as to him she had promised.

00:37:28.380 Then sought Guthrun the wise to go to her death,

00:37:32.320 But for days did she wait, and t'was long ere she died.

00:37:37.840 So happy shall he be, who such offspring haws,

00:37:42.440 O their children so gallant as Geeky begot, 0.77

00:37:46.080 Forever shall live in lands far and wide,

00:37:49.800 Their valor heroic, wherever men hear it.

00:38:07.840 Thank you.

Asatru Folk Assembly - February 04, 2024

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