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The Völsunga Saga on Hogni

The Story Of The Volsungs, (Volsunga Saga) > CHAPTER XXXIV. Atli bids the Giukings to him.

attestation: Hogni is suspicious of Atli's invitation, noting a wolf's hair knit to a gold ring among the gifts, suggesting Gudrun deems Atli wolf-minded toward them

"when I saw those dear-bought things the king sends us I wondered to behold a wolf's hair knit to a certain gold ring; belike Gudrun deems him to be minded as a wolf towards us, and will have naught of our faring."
attestation: Hogni says his brother's word must stand and he will follow, though he is most loath to the journey

"Thy word given must even stand now, nor will I fail to follow thee, but most loth am I to this journey."

attestation: Hogni dismisses each of Kostbera's dreams with benign interpretations, saying the erne dream concerns oxen and Atli is heart-whole toward them

"Atli is heart-whole toward us."

attestation: Hogni and the Giukings killed Vingi with axe-hammers after he revealed his betrayal

"they cast him down to earth, and smote him with their axe-hammers till he died."

attestation: Hogni retorts that Atli broke the peace first by taking his kinswoman and starving her to death and murdering her for her wealth

"thou wert the first to break the peace. Thou didst take my kinswoman and pine her to death by hunger, and didst murder her, and take her wealth"

attestation: Hogni felled twenty of Atli's stoutest champions and thrust many into the fire in the hall before being borne down and taken

"he felled to earth twenty of the stoutest of the champions of King Atli, and many he thrust into the fire that burnt amidst the hall"
attestation: Hogni prayed for Hjalli's life, saying the thrall's shrieks were unbearable and it was a lesser matter to play out the play himself

"he prayed for the thrall's life, and said that these shrieks he could not away with, and that it were a lesser matter to him to play out the play to the end"
attestation: Hogni laughed while they cut the heart from him, and all wondered at his worth; his courage is held in perpetual memory

"they fell on Hogni even as Atli urged them, and cut the heart from out of him, but such was the might of his manhood, that he laughed while he abode that torment, and all wondered at his worth, and in perpetual memory is it held sithence."

relationship: Hogni had a son left alive called Niblung who bore great wrath against King Atli and told Gudrun he would avenge his father

"Hogni had a son left alive, hight Niblung, and great wrath of heart he bare against King Atli; and he did Gudrun to wit that he would avenge his father."

attestation: Hogni, father of Dag and Sigrun, had been slain by Helgi in battle; Helgi then gave peace to and took oaths of Dag

"Hogni, the father of Dar and Sigrun, had been slain by Helgi in battle, and Helgi had given peace to, and taken oaths of Dag."

attestation: Hogni asks what wrong Sigurd has done that they should take his life

"What hath wrought Sigurd Of any wrong-doing That the life of the famed one Thou art fain of taking?"
attestation: Hogni says Brynhild has whetted all bale and hate, grudging Gudrun all goodly life

"Thee hath Brynhild Unto all bale, And all hate whetted, And a work of sorrow; For she grudges to Gudrun All goodly life"
attestation: Hogni asks what their sister means by sending a ring clad in wolf's weed, noting a wolf's hair wreathed about it as a warning

"What mind has our sister That a ring she hath sent us In weed of wolves clad? Bids she not to be wary? For a wolf's hair I found The fair ring wreathed about; Wolf beset shall the way be If we wend on this errand."
attestation: Hogni laughed when they cut the heart from him, the crest-smith yet quick, and little thought he to quail

"Then laughed Hogni When they cut the heart from him, From the crest-smith yet quick, Little thought he to quail."