Editing Gudrun (section)

====''Atlakviða''====
In ''[[Atlakviða]]'', Atli invites Gudrun's brothers Högni and Gunnar to his hall with the intent of killing them. The brothers come, although Gudrun has sent them a warning. Once Gunnar and Högni are dead, Gudrun offers Atli a drink and invites him and the Huns to a feast. After all are drunk, she reveals that Atli has eaten his sons, kills him, then sets the hall on fire, killing everyone within, including herself.{{sfn|Millet|2008|p=299, 307}}{{sfn|Beck|1973|p=165}}

''Atlakviða'' is commonly supposedly to be one of the oldest poems in the ''Poetic Edda'', possibly dating from the ninth century.{{sfn|Millet|2008|p=48, 51}} Gudrun feeding Atli his sons may derive from the antique story of [[Tereus]] and [[Procne]], however.{{sfn|Millet|2008|p=55}} The poem is particularly notable in that Sigurd is not mentioned at all.{{sfn|Beck|1973|p=466-467}}