The Story of the Volsungs

Sinfjotli the

er a witch-wife exceeding cunning, and Signy talked with her in such w

Even as tho

the witch-wife sits in Signy's place according to her rede, and goes to bed b

brother, and prayed him give her harbouring for the night; "For I h

me into the house, and they sat down to meat, and his eyes were often on her, and a goodly and fair woman she seemed to him; but when they are full, then he says to

d the witch-wife and bade her chang

he sent him to Sigmund's earth-house; but this trial she had made of her other sons or ever she had sent them to Sigmund, that she had sewed gloves on to their hands through flesh and skin, and they had borne it ill and cried out

Volsung have felt

iring; so he gave him the meal-sack, and then went after the wood, and by then he came back ha

I first fell to kneading of it, but I have kneaded it all up toge

d laughed o

to-night, for the most deadly of wor

urt therefrom; but Sinfjotli might abide whatso venom came on the out