The Hervarar Saga ok Heiðreks on Brynhild

Stories And Ballads > Part I > The TháTtr Of Nornagest

• attestation: Brynhild slew seven slaves and five handmaidens before killing herself with a sword

  "Brynhild then slew seven of her slaves and five handmaidens, and ran herself through with a sword"

• attestation: Brynhild was burned on a pyre separate from Sigurth, taken in a chariot with velvet and silk ablaze with gold

  "She was taken in a chariot with a canopy of velvet and silk which was all ablaze with gold, and thus was she burnt."

• attestation: An ogress dwelling in cliffs confronted Brynhild on the road to Hell, accusing her of getting Sigurth slain

  "she was brought near some cliffs where an ogress dwelt. The ogress was standing outside the doors of her cave and wore a skin kirtle and was of a blackish hue."

• attestation: Brynhild and the ogress exchanged verses about blame and fate in the Hellride dialogue

  "Thou shalt not be suffered to pass through my courts With their pillars of stone in my mansion drear"

• attestation: Brynhild declared she and Sigurth would end their life's battle together, dismissing the ogress

  "But I with my Sigurth shall end my life's battle At last. Now depart from me, daughter of Night!"

• attestation: Brynhild had slept alongside Sigurth for eight nights without any loving caresses

  "As brother with sister we slept together; Eight nights' space he lay at my side. There were we happy and slumbered idly, Nor loving caresses did ever betide."

• attestation: Brynhild was deceived about the truth of her marriage to Sigurth

  "The truth of my marriage from me had they kept."

• attestation: The ogress leapt into the cliff with a horrible shriek after Brynhild's final defiance

  "Then the ogress gave a horrible shriek and leapt into the cliff.""