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Borghild
[ bawrg-hild ]
noun
- (in the Volsunga Saga ) the first wife of Sigmund: she poisons Sinfiotli in revenge for his killing of her brother.
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When he came home, Borghild bade him go away, but Sigmund offered the blood-fine, which it was incumbent on her to accept.
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King Sigmund sojourned long in Denmark, in Borghild's kingdom, after having espoused her.
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Borghild bore another horn to Sinfiotli, and prayed him to drink, when all took place as before.
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And Borghild's courage, too, rose and fell with the flickering motion of a flame which wrestles with the wind.
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Truls knew the voices only too well; it was Syvert Stein and Borghild who were singing a stave.
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