fate'). Slagfiðr and Egill go in search of their women, but Vǫlundr remains at home instead, forging baugar (‘(arm-)rings’) for his woman. Stanzas 7–19 Discovering that Vǫlundr is living alone, a local king, Níðuðr, ‘lord of the Njárar’, has him captured in his sleep (stanzas 7–12). Níðuðr takes Vǫlundr's sword and gives one of the rings which Vǫlundr made for his missing bride to his daughter Bǫðvildr, and, at his wife's instigation, he has Vǫlundr's hamstrings cut, imprisoning him on an island called Sævarstaðr, where Vǫlundr makes objects for Níðuðr (stanzas 13–19). Stanzas 20–41 Vǫlundr takes his revenge on Níðuðr first by enticing Níðuðr's two sons to visit with promises of treasure, killing them, and making jewels of their eyes and teeth (stanzas 20–26). He then entices Bǫðvildr by promising to mend the ring which she was given, getting her drunk, and implicitly having sex with her (stanzas 27–29). The poem culminates in Vǫlundr taking to the air by some means which is not clearly described and telling Níðuðr what he has done, laughing (stanzas 30–39). It focuses finally on the plight of Bǫðvildr, whose lament closes the poem (stanzas 40–41): It relates to type 313 and 313C in the Aarne–Thompson–Uther Index. Similar tales have types 400 and 465. Literary criticism The poem is appreciated for its evocative images. In the night went men, in studded corslets, their shields glistened in the waning moon. Völundarkviða 6, Thorpe's translation Editions and translations English translations Henry Adams Bellows (trans.), The Poetic Edda, Scandinavian Classics, 21-22 (Princeton [N.J.]: Princeton University Press, 1936): translation only; translation with facing Old Norse text. Benjamin Thorpe (trans.), Edda Sæmundar Hinns Froða: The Edda Of Sæmund The Learned, 2 vols (London: Trübner & Co. 1866). Reprinted 1906 as Rasmus B. Anderson & J. W. Buel (Eds.) The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson. London, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, New York: Norrœna Society. Available online at Google Books. Searchable graphic image version requiring DjVu plugin available at University of Georgia Libraries: Facsimile Books and Periodicals: The Elder Eddas and the Younger Eddas. W. H. Auden and P. B. Taylor (trans.), The Elder Edda: A Selection (London: Faber, 1969): here. Dronke, Ursula (ed. & trans.) (1997). The Poetic Edda, vol. II, Mythological Poems. Oxford: Clarendon. . Old Norse editions Sophus Bugge (ed.), Norrœn fornkvæði: Islandsk Samling af Oldtidsdigte om Nordens Guder og Heroer almndelig kaldet Sæmundar Edda hins fróða (Oslo: Aschehough, 1926):