midday
I am very glad to go , for now I have no more joy in life , being but a luckless man ; it is an ill world , friends , and all the ways are red with blood . I have shed much blood , though but one life haunts me now at the last , and that is the life of Atli the Earl , for he was no match for my might and he is dead because of my sin . With my own blood I will wash away the blood of Atli , and then I seek another place , leaving nothing but a tale to be told in the ingle when fall the winter snows . For to this end we all come at the last , and it matters little if it find us at midday or at nightfall . We live in sorrow , we die in pain and darkness : for this is the curse that the Gods have laid upon men and each must taste it in his season . But I have sworn that no more men shall die for me . I will fight the last great fight alone ; for I know this : I shall not easily be overcome , and with my fallen foes I will tread on Bifrost Bridge .