the seventh section (containing stanzas 28-37) Sigrún's brother Dagr, who had been spared by vowing allegiance to Helgi, sacrificed to Odin in the hope of getting revenge for Helgi's slaying of his father and brothers. Odin gave Dagr a spear with which Dagr pierced Helgi at a location called Fjöturlundr. Dagr then returned to tell his sister of Helgi's death: Sigrún avenged her husband by placing on her brother the most horrible curse: Dagr was banished to live on carrion in the woods and Helgi was buried in a barrow. When Helgi had entered Valhalla Odin asked Helgi to rule over the Einherjar together with himself. There is a stanza which Bellows interprets as a misplaced stanza on the conflict between Helgi and Hunding, but others interpret as Helgi oppressing Hunding in Valhalla: Helgi's last visit An eighth section (containing stanzas 39-50) deals with a short visit by Helgi from Valhalla and his meeting with Sigrún in his barrow. One evening, a maiden told Sigrún that she has seen Helgi ride with a large retinue into his own barrow, and so Sigrún went to the barrow in order to see Helgi. His hair were covered with frost, his body is sullied with blood and his hands were wet. He explained that it was because every tear she had shed had fallen wet and cold on him. In spite of this, she prepared the bed in his mound and they spent a night together. Before day broke, Helgi had to return to Valhalla. Sigrún returned home and spent the rest of her life waiting in vain for Helgi to return to his barrow one more time. She died early from the sorrow, but she would meet him in the next life when she was the Valkyrie Kára and he was Helgi Haddingjaskati. Notes External links Helgakvitha Hundingsbana II, Translation and commentary by Henry Adams Bellows The Second Lay of Helgi Gundingcide, Translation by Benjamin Thorpe Helgakviða Hundingsbana II, Translation by Lee M. Hollander Helgakviða Hundingsbana önnur, Sophus Bugge's edition of the manuscript text Völsungakviða in forna (Helgakviða Hundingsbana II), Guðni Jónsson's edition of the text with normalized spelling Eddic poetry Sources of Norse mythology Nibelung tradition