《辛菲約特利之死》原典
Frá dauða Sinfjötla
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英譯採用 Henry Adams Bellows 的1923年譯本，已屬公有領域；詩節編號可能與原文不同。
Sigmund, the son of Volsung, was a king in the land of the Franks; Sinfjotli was his eldest son, the second was Helgi, and the third Hamund. Borghild, Sigmund's wife, had a brother who was named ———. Sinfjotli, her stepson, and ——— both wooed the same woman, wherefore Sinfjotli slew him. And when he came home, Borghild bade him depart, but Sigmund offered her atonement-money, and this she had to accept. At the funeral feast Borghild brought in ale; she took poison, a great horn full, and brought it to Sinfjotli. But when he looked into the horn, he saw that it was poison, and said to Sigmund: "Muddy is the drink, Father!" Sigmund took the horn and drank therefrom. It is said that Sigmund was so hardy that poison might not harm him, either outside or in, but all his sons could withstand poison only without on their skin. Borghild bore another horn to Sinfjotli and bade him drink, and all happened as before. And yet a third time she brought him a horn, and spoke therewith scornful words of him if he should not drink from it. He spoke as before with Sigmund. The latter said: "Let it trickle through your beard, Son!" Sinfjotli drank, and straightway was dead. Sigmund bore him a long way in his arms, and came to a narrow and long fjord, and there was a little boat and a man in it. He offered to take Sigmund across the fjord. But when Sigmund had borne the corpse out into the boat, then the craft was full. The man told Sigmund to go round the inner end of the fjord. Then the man pushed the boat off, and disappeared.
King Sigmund dwelt long in Denmark in Borghild's kingdom after he had married her. Thereafter Sigmund went south into the land of the Franks, to the kingdom which he had there. There he married Hjordis, the daughter of King Eylimi; their son was Sigurth. King Sigmund fell in a battle with the sons of Hunding, and Hjordis then married Alf the son of King Hjalprek. There Sigurth grew up in his boyhood. Sigmund and all his sons were far above all other men in might and stature and courage and every kind of ability. Sigurth, however, was the foremost of all, and all men call him in the old tales the noblest of mankind and the mightiest leader.
本站未提供本篇的古諾爾斯語原文；譯文由 AI 根據1923年英譯本製作。
沃爾松之子西格蒙德是法蘭克之地的國王；辛菲約特利是他的長子，次子是赫爾吉，三子是哈蒙德。西格蒙德的妻子博爾格希爾德有個兄弟，名叫———。她的繼子辛菲約特利與———同時向一名女子求愛，辛菲約特利因此殺了他。辛菲約特利回家後，博爾格希爾德命他離去，但西格蒙德願付她償命金，她也只得接受。在喪宴上，博爾格希爾德端來啤酒；她取了滿滿一大角杯的毒酒，送到辛菲約特利面前。他朝角杯裡一看，便看出酒中有毒，對西格蒙德說：「父親，這酒混濁！」西格蒙德接過角杯，喝了裡頭的酒。據說西格蒙德體魄極為強健，毒物無論沾在體外或服入體內，都傷不了他；但他的兒子們卻只能抵禦沾在皮膚上的毒。
博爾格希爾德又端了一角杯酒給辛菲約特利，叫他喝下，一切又如先前一般。她第三次端來一角杯酒，還出言譏諷，說他若不喝，便如何如何。他又像先前那樣對西格蒙德說了。西格蒙德說：「兒子，就讓它順著你的鬍子流下去吧！」辛菲約特利喝下酒，立刻便死了。
西格蒙德抱著他走了很遠，來到一處狹長的峽灣，灣裡有艘小船，船上有個人。那人說願意載西格蒙德渡過峽灣。但西格蒙德將屍身抱上船後，船就滿了。那人叫西格蒙德繞過峽灣最深處的盡頭。隨後，那人將船推離岸邊，便消失了。
西格蒙德王娶了博爾格希爾德後，在丹麥她的國度裡住了很久。此後，西格蒙德南下法蘭克之地，回到他在那裡的王國。他在那裡娶了埃利米王的女兒希約爾迪絲；他們的兒子便是西格爾德。西格蒙德王在與洪丁諸子的戰鬥中陣亡，希約爾迪絲隨後嫁給希亞爾普雷克王的兒子阿爾夫。西格爾德在那裡度過童年，漸漸長大。西格蒙德與他的所有兒子，無論力量、身材、勇氣或各種本領，都遠勝其他人。然而，西格爾德在他們之中最為出眾，古老傳說裡人人都稱他為人中最高貴者，也是最強大的領袖。