‘Verðr at blóði brunnr inn fagri;
þós á grundu gnótt hvers konar.
En á holmi hildingar tveir
berjask of brúði bjarthaddaða;
sús í víðri Vaðbatúli.
‘Inn fagri brunnr verðr at blóði; þós gnótt hvers konar á grundu. En tveir hildingar berjask á holmi of bjarthaddaða brúði; sús í víðri Vaðbatúli.
‘The fine spring turns to blood; yet there is every kind of bounty on the earth. And two leaders fight on an island over a bright-haired woman; she is in broad Vadum batuli.
[7-8] bjarthaddaða brúði ‘a bright-haired woman’: De Vries (1964-7, II, 75 n. 181) compares Gríp 33/6; the adj. is attested only in these two poems. In Gríp the ‘bright-haired maiden’ is none other than Brynhildr, who proves to be the death of Sigurðr.