Hervor said:
11. “May all of you feel within your ribs
as though in ant-hill your ill bones rotted,11
but the sword ye fetch me forged by Dvalin:12
it befits not ghosts to guard prized arms.”
Angantýr said:
12. “Hervor, daughter, why doest call me
with cold curses? They will cost thee dear!
Bereft of reason and raving art thou,
that with wildered thought thou wak’st the dead.
13. “Neither father me buried nor fellow kinsmen:
(thy brothers’ banesmen this barrow raised.13)
The twain who lived did Tyrfing win—
now one of the victors wields it at last.”
Hervor said:
14. “Thou say’st not sooth! May so the gods
leave thee whole in howe as thou hast not
Tyrfing with thee:14 unwilling art
to give thy daughter her dearest wish.”
Angantýr said:*
15. “Is Hel’s gate lifted, the howes do ope,
the edge of the isle is all afire—
awful is it to be without:
to thy ships hie thee in haste, oh maiden!”
[11. Cf. the curses of Búsla.
12. One of the two dwarfs who forged Tyrfing for Sváfrlami.
13. The lacuna (not indicated in the MSS) is supplied here after the excellent suggestion of S. Bugge—Hiálmar and Orvar Odd (Sóti) or, rather,
the latter alone.
14. Hervor wishes him everlasting life in his grave-mound if he had not the sword—as she is sure he has! In the original the stanza is not quite clear.
* This stanza was originally stanza 7 in Hollander's orignal translation with the Sheperd as the speaker, it is clearly stanza 15 in the ON and Angantýr is the
speaker.]
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Hervör kvað:
11. Hervarðr, Hjörvarðr, Hrani, Angantýr!
Svá sé yðr öllum innan rifja
sem þér í maura mornið haugi,
nema sverð selið, þar er sló Dvalinn;
samir-a draugum dýrt vápn fela."
Þá svarar Angantýr:
12. "Hervör dóttir, hví kallar svá?
Full feiknstafa ferr þú þér at illu!
Ær ertu orðin ok örvita,
villhyggjandi, vekr menn dauða.
13. Gróf-at mik faðir né frændr aðrir;
þeir höfðu Tyrfing tveir, er lifðu;
varð þó eigandi einn um síðir."
Hervör kvað:
14. "Segðu einn satt mér, svá láti áss þik
heilan í haugi, sem þú hafir eigi
Tyrfing með þér; trautt er þér at veita
arf, Angantýr, eingabarni."
Angantýr kvað:
15. "Hnigin er helgrind, haugar opnask,
allr er í eldi eybarmr at sjá;
atalt er úti um at lítask;
skyntu, mær, ef þú mátt til skipa þinna."
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