And with it she clove the huntsman
And him in sunder slew.

27. Three cross roads are bending,
And one can she descry;
Hervik has gone straight forth to the barrow
Wherein her father doth lie.

28. Hervik has gone straight forth to the barrow
Where her father lies dead and cold.
Little recks she of fear or favour,
Though quake now fell and fold.

29. Then up and spake the voice of Arngrim,
And these words first spake he:--
"O where are my eleven sons gone,
Since daughters are visiting me?"

30. "I pass not for my eleven brothers,
Or where they share their fee.
No treasure have I, save only Hjalmar,
Hither brought with me.

31. "O haste thee, haste thee, my noble Father
The good brand to give me;
Or shall I set fire here to this barrow,
And burn it over thee?"

32. Full woe was the champion Arngrim
That she should wreck his grave.
He seized Tyrfing in both his hands
And to his daughter gave.

33. He gave to her the sword then
Was wonderfully made.--
The length of it was eighteen ells,
And poisoned was its blade.

34. He gave to her the sword then
Was wonderfully made.
No leechcraft could avail the man
Was wounded by its blade.

35. All in the middle of the garden
She clad her in cloak of skin;
She busked her in a cloak of fur,
And entered the high hall within.

36. She busked her in her cloak of fur
And entered the high hall belive,
Where Oervarodd sat before the board
With a hundred men and five.

37. "O welcome, welcome, Hervik,
Hither now to me
Mead or wine shalt thou have to drink
As liefest is to thee."

38. "O little to me is thy mead, Oervarodd,
And little to me thy wine.
Today I have come to thy high hall,
And a different errand is mine.

39. "O little to me is thy mead, Oervarodd,
And little to me thy beer;
For a different errand did I busk me
When I left my home to come here.

40. "I busked me and came from Sweden
To fight in this thy land.
Stand up! Stand up! Thou bold Oervarodd,
Stand up, and arm thy band!"

41. It f