Sigurðr Grana sverði keyrði;
eldr sloknaði fyr öðlingi.
Logi allr lægðiz fyr lofgjörnum;
bliku reiði, er Reginn átti.
Sigurðr keyrði Grana sverði; eldr sloknaði fyr öðlingi. Allr logi lægðiz fyr lofgjörnum; reiði bliku, er Reginn átti.
Sigurðr drove Grani on with his sword; the fire was extinguished before the prince. All flame died down before the one eager for praise; the harness, which Reginn had owned, flashed.
[All]: In Vǫls Sigurðr is the son of Sigmundr, member of the Volsung family and a descendant of Óðinn, but he is likely to have had a prior legendary existence as a hero figure, independent of the saga’s presentation of Volsung family history, as witnessed by a number of the poems of the Poetic Edda that deal with his life-history and by C13th Middle High German poems, including the Nibelungenlied (cf. Vǫls 1965, ix-xi).