Helreið Brynhildar

The giantess accuses Brynhildr of having caused the deaths of heroes and of having wanted another woman's husband (Sigurd).

Against the will of Odin, she then made the aged Hjalmgunnar, the king of the Goths, die and instead she gave victory to Auða's young brother (Agnarr).

The angry Odin imprisoned her in Skatalund[5] within red and white overlapping shields, and cursed her to sleep until a man without fear would set her free.

In order to make it even harder to liberate her, Odin also created a circle of fire around her resting place.

Brynhildr finishes the poem by stating that men and women live in this world to suffer, but that she and Sigurd would never part again: