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Atlamol En Grönlenzku
98. Then did Atli die, | and his heirs' grief doubled;
The high-born one did | as to him she had promised;
Then sought Guthrun the wise | to go to her death,
But for days did she wait, | and 'twas long ere she died.
99. Full happy shall he be | who such offspring has,
Or children so gallant, | as Gjuki begot;
Forever shall live, | and in lands far and wide,
Their valor heroic | wherever men hear it.
[97. The manuscript does not indicate the speaker. Many editors assume a gap either before or after line 1. A ship: the
burial of Norse chiefs in ships was of frequent occurrence, but the Greenland poet's application of the custom to Atli is
some what grotesque.
98. Heirs, etc.: merely a stock phrase, here quite meaningless, as Atli's heirs had all been killed. Long: cf. Guthrunarhvot,
introductory prose.]
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