Da sagde Herborg
Language: Danish (Dansk) after the Old Norse (Fornnorræna)
Our translations: ENG FRE
Da sagde Herborg, Hunelands Dronning:
"Jeg har en haardere Harm at fortælle.
Fjernt i Sønden mine syv Sønner
faldt paa Val med deres Fader.
Med Fader og Moder og fire Brødre
leged Vinden paa Havets Vove;
Bølgen slog
mod Skibets Planker.
Selv skulde jeg dem smykke,
selv dem begrave,
og selv for deres Helfart sørge.
Alt det jeg led i et eneste Aar,
og Ingen talte et Ord til Trøst."
Dog kunde Gudrun ikke græde;
saa mod var hun i Hu over den døde Mand,
saa fuld af Smerte
ved Fyrstens Ligfærd.
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- ENG English (Philip Schäfer) , "Thus said Herborg, queen of Huneland", copyright © 2004, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Alors Herborg, la reine du Huneland parla ainsi", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
Researcher for this page: Philip Schäfer
This text was added to the website: 2023-10-01
Line count: 17
Word count: 92
Thus said Herborg, queen of Huneland
Language: English after the Danish (Dansk)
Thus said Herborg, queen of Huneland:
"I have still much harder sorrow to tell.
Far in the South my seven sons
Died in the battlefield with their father.
My father and my mother and my four brothers
Fell victim to the wind on the waves of the water;
The breakers stroke
against the ship's planks.
I had to adorn him myself,
To bury him myself,
And to mourn for my kin myself.
This all I sustained in a summer,
And no one spoke a word of comfort to me."
But Gudrun did not know a tear;
Her mind was so grieved over her husband's death,
So full of grief
About the prince's dead body.
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This text was added to the website: 2023-10-01
Line count: 17
Word count: 114
