Helgakviða Hundingsbana I

[2] The poem is also ambiguous in attributing Helgi to the Ylfing, Yngling and Völsung clans, which suggests a merging of originally unrelated traditions.

Ár var alda, þat er arar gullu, hnigu heilög vötn af Himinfjöllum; þá hafði Helga inn hugumstóra Borghildr borit í Brálundi.

Nótt varð í bæ, nornir kómu, þær er öðlingi aldr of skópu; þann báðu fylki frægstan verða ok buðlunga beztan þykkja.

In olden days, when eagles screamed, And holy streams from heaven's crags fell, Was Helgi then, the hero-hearted, Borghild's son, in Bralund born.

[6] Helgi met the Valkyrie Sigrún who informed him that her father Högni has betrothed her to Höðbroddr, the unworthy son of king Granmarr of the Hniflung clan.