36 "Seek the smithy | that thou didst set,
Thou shalt find the bellows | sprinkled with blood;
I smote off the heads | of both thy sons,
And their feet 'neath the sooty | straps I hid.
37 "Their skulls, once hid | by their hair, I took,
Set them in silver | and sent them to Nithuth;
Gems full fair | from their eyes I fashioned,
To Nithuth's wife | so wise I gave them.
38 "And from the teeth | of the twain I wrought
A brooch for the breast, | to Bothvild I gave it;
Now big with child | does Bothvild go,
The only daughter | ye two had ever."
>36 "Seek the smithy | that thou didst set,
>Thou shalt find the bellows | sprinkled with blood;
>I smote off the heads | of both thy sons,
>And their feet 'neath the sooty | straps I hid.
>37 "Their skulls, once hid | by their hair, I took,
>Set them in silver | and sent them to Nithuth;
>Gems full fair | from their eyes I fashioned,
>To Nithuth's wife | so wise I gave them.
>38 "And from the teeth | of the twain I wrought
>A brooch for the breast, | to Bothvild I gave it;
>Now big with child | does Bothvild go,
>The only daughter | ye two had ever."
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