This was done; he was hamstrung, and then set on a certain small island near the shore, called Saevarstad.  He there forged for the king all kinds of jewellery work.  No one was allowed to go to him, except the king.  Volund said: 

17.  “The sword shines in Nidud’s belt, which I whetted as I could most skilfully, and tempered, as seemed to me most cunningly.  That bright blade forever is taken from me:  never shall I see it borne into Volund’s smithy.

18.  Now Bodvild wears my consort’s red-gold rings:  for this I have no indemnity.”  He sat and never slept, and his hammer plied; but much more speedy vengeance devised on Nidud.

19.  The two young sons of Nidud ran in at the door to look, in Saevarstad.  To the chest they came, for the keys asked; manifest was their grudge, when therein they looked.

20.  Many necklaces were there, which to those youths appeared of the red gold to be, and treasures.  “Come ye two alone, to-morrow come; that gold shall be given to you.

21.  Tell it not to the maidens, nor to the household folk, nor to any one, that ye have been with me.”  Early called one the other, brother, brother:  “Let us go see the rings.”

22.  To the chest they came, for the keys asked; manifest was their grudge, when therein they looked.  Of those children he the heads cut off, and under the prison’s mixen laid their bodies.

23.  But their skulls beneath the hair he in silver set, and to Nidud gave; and of their eyes precious stones he formed, which to Nidud’s wily wife he sent.

24.  But of the teeth of the two breast-ornaments he made, and to Bodvild sent.  Then did Bodvild praise the ring:  to Volund brought it, when she had broken it:  “I dare to no tell it, save alone to thee.”

Volund.

25.  “I will so repair the fractured gold, that to thy father it shall fairer seem, and to thy mother much more beautiful, and to thyself, in the same degree.”

26.  He then brought her beer, that he might succeed the better, as on her seat she fell asleep.  “Now have I my wrongs avenged, all save one in the wood perpetrated."[47]

27.  “I wish,” said Volund, “that on my feet I were, of the use of which Nidud’s men have deprived me.”  Laughing Volund rose in air:  Bodvild weeping from the isle departed.  She mourned her lover’s absence, and for her father’s wrath.

28.  Stood without Nidud’s wily wife; then she went in through the hall; but he on the enclosure sat down to rest.  “Art thou awake Niarars’ lord!”

29.  “Ever am I awake, joyless I lie to rest, when I call to mind my children’s death:  my head is chilled, cold are to me thy counsels.  Now with Volund I desire to speak.”

30.  “Tell me, Volund, Alfars’ chief! of my brave boys what is become?”

31.  “Oaths shalt thou first to me swear, by board of ship, by rim of shield, by shoulder of steed, by edge of sword, that thou wilt not slay the wife of Volund, nor of my bride cause the death; although a wife I have whom ye know, or offspring within thy court.