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The Great Lacuna is a lacuna of eight leaves where there was heroic Old Norse poetry in the Codex Regius. The gap would have contained the last part of Sigrdrífumál and most of Sigurðarkviða. What remains of the last poem consists of 22 stanzas called Brot af Sigurðarkviðu, but according to Henry Adams Bellows, the original size of Sigurðarkviða should have been more than 250 stanzas.
The missing original narrative is preserved in the Völsunga saga in prose form with four stanzas of poetry. The first two stanzas that are preserved through the saga deal with how Sigurd returns to Brynhildr leaping through the flames on Grani after Gunnar had failed:
Eldr nam at æsast,en jörð at skjálfaok hár logivið himni gnæfa.Fár treystist þarfylkis rekkaeld at ríðané yfir stíga.Sigurðr Granasverði keyrði.Eldr slokknaðifyr öðlingi,logi allr lægðistfyr lofgjörnum.Bliku reiði,er Reginn átti.
The fire raged,the earth was rocked,The flames leaped highto heaven itself;Few were the hardyheroes would dareTo ride or leapthe raging flames.Sigurth urged Granithen with his sword,The fire slackenedbefore the hero,The flames sank lowfor the greedy of fame,The armor flashedthat Regin had fashioned.