into the fight clad in a blue cloak, and with a slouched hat on
his head, one-eyed he was, (1) and bare a bill in his hand; and
he came against Sigmund the King, and have up his bill against
him, and as Sigmund smote fiercely with the sword it fell upon
the bill and burst asunder in the midst: thenceforth the
slaughter and dismay turned to his side, for the good-hap of King
Sigmund had departed from him, and his men fell fast about him;
naught did the king spare himself, but the rather cheered on his
men; but even as the saw says, "No might 'gainst many", so was it
now proven; and in this fight fell Sigmund the King, and King
Eylimi, his father-in-law, in the fore-front of their battle, and
therewith the more part of their folk.


ENDNOTES:
(1) Odin coming to change the ownership of the sword he had
given Sigmund. See Chapter 3.



CHAPTER XII.
Of the Shards of the Sword Gram, and how Hjordis went to King
Alf.

Now King Lyngi made for the king's abode, and was minded to take
the king's daughter there, but failed herein, for there he found
neither wife nor wealth; so he fared through all the realm, and
gave his men rule thereover, and now deemed that he had slain all
the kin of the Volsungs, and that he need dread them no more from
henceforth.