10.  Hiorvard! thou art not a king of wholesome counsel, leader of people! renowned though thou mayest be.  Thou hast let fire devour the homes of princes, though harm to thee they none have done.

11.  But Hrodmar shall of the rings dispose, which our relations have possessed.  That chief recks little of his life; he thinks only to obtain the heritage of the dead.

Hiorvard answers, that he will supply Helgi with an army, if he will avenge his mother’s father.  Helgi thereupon seeks the sword that Svava had indicated to him.  Afterwards he and Atli went and slew Hrodmar, and performed many deeds of valour.  He killed the Jotun Hati, as he sat on a crag.  Helgi and Atli lay with their ships in Hatafiord.  Atli kept watch in the first part of the night.  Hrimgerd, Hati’s daughter, said: 

12.  Who are the chieftains in Hatafiord?  With shields are your ships bedecked; boldly ye bear yourselves, few things ye fear, I ween:  tell me how your king is named.

Atli.

13.  Helgi is his name; but thou nowhere canst to the chief do harm; iron forts are around the prince’s fleet; giantesses may not assail us.

Hrimgerd.

14.  How art thou named? most powerful champion!  How do men call thee?  Thy king confides in thee, since in the ship’s fair prow he grants thee place.

Atli.

15.  Atli I am named, fierce I shall prove to thee; towards giantesses I am most hostile.  The humid prow I have oft occupied, and the night-riders slain.

16.  How art thou called? corpse-greedy gigantess! hag! name thy father.  Nine rasts shouldst thou be underground, and a forest grow on thy breast.

Hrimgerd.

17.  Hrimgerd I am called, Hati was my father called, whom I knew the mightiest Jotun.  He many women had from their dwellings taken, until him Helgi slew.

Atli.

18.  Thou wast, hag! before the prince’s ships, and layest before them in the fiord’s mouth.  The chieftain’s warriors thou wouldst to Ran consign, had a bar not crossed thee.

Hrimgerd.

19.  Now, Atli! thou art wrong, methinks thou art dreaming; thy brows thou lettest over thy eyelids fall.  My mother lay before the prince’s ships; I Hlodvard’s sons drowned in the ocean.

20.  Thou wouldst neigh, Atli! if thou wert not a gelding.  See!  Hrimgerd cocks her tail.  Thy heart, methinks, Atli! is in thy hinder part, although thy voice is clear.

Atli.

21.  I think I shall the stronger prove, if thou desirest to try; and I can step from the port to land.  Thou shalt be soundly cudgeled, if I heartily begin, and let thy tail fall, Hrimgerd!

Hrimgerd.

22.  Just come on shore, Atli! if in thy strength thou trustest, and let us meet in Varinsvik.  A rib-roasting thou shalt get, brave boy! if in my claws thou comest.

Atli.