 The woman wakes , sits up , looks at Sigurd , and the two converse in two stanzas of verse . In the second stanza , the woman explains that Odin placed a sleeping spell on her she could not break , and due to that spell she has been asleep a long time . Sigurd asks for her name , and the woman gives Sigurd a horn of mead to help him retain her words in his memory . The woman recites a heathen prayer in two stanzas . A prose narrative explains that the woman is named Sigrdrífa and that she is a valkyrie . 
