Note 66 — The Short Lay of Sigurth
Henry Adams Bellows translation
In place of lines 3–4 the manuscript has one line “Two at his head, | and a pair of hawks”; the addition is made from the Volsungasaga paraphrase. The burning or burying of slaves or beasts to accompany their masters in death was a general custom in the North. The number of slaves indicated in this stanza does not tally with the one given in stanza 69, wherefore Vigfusson rejects most of this stanza.