From this point to the end of the Saga it keeps closely to the
Songs of Edda; in chap. xxxii. the Sagaman has rendered into
prose the "Ancient Lay of Gudrun", except for the beginning,
which gives again another account of the death of Sigurd: this
lay also we have translated.

The grand poem, called the "Hell-ride of Brynhild", is not
represented directly by anything in the prose except that the
Sagaman has supplied from it a link or two wanting in the "Lay of
Sigrdrifa"; it will be found translated in our second part.

The betrayal and slaughter of the Giukings or Niblungs, and the
fearful end of Atli and his sons, and court, are recounted in two
lays, called the "Lays of Atli"; the longest of these, the
"Greenland Lay of Atli", is followed closely by the Sagaman; the
Shorter one we have translated.

The end of Gudrun, of her daughter by Sigurd and of her sons by
her last husband Jonakr, treated of in the last four chapters of
the Saga, are very grandly and poetically given in the songs
called the "Whetting of Gudrun", and the "Lay of Hamdir", which
are also among our translations.

These are all the songs of the Edda which the Sagaman has dealt
with; but one other, the "Lament of Oddrun", we have translated
on account of its intrinsic merit.

As to the literary quality of this work we in say much, but we
think we may well trust the reader of poetic insight to break
through whatever entanglement of strange manners or unused