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Wilt thou run on to thy own mischief? Thou art mad and out of thy senses, who art desperately resolved to waken dead men.
I was not buried either by father or other friends: two which lived after me got Tirfing; one of whom is now possessor thereof[1].
Hervor.
Thou dost not tell the truth. So let Odin preserve thee safe in the tomb, as thou hast not Tirfing by thee. Art thou unwilling, Angantyr, to give an inheritance to thy only child?
- ↑ This is said merely to make her desist from
her purpose; as foreseeing it will prove fatal to her
posterity.
Tirfing is the name of the sword. The etymology of this word is not known.
