wife, yea if none else were. So he goes to the house of King
Eylimi, who would make a great feast for him, if so be he comes
not thither in the guise of a foe. So messages were sent from
one to the other that this present journey was a peaceful one,
and not for war; so the feast was held in the best of wise and
with many a man thereat; fairs were in every place established
for King Sigmund, and all things else were done to the aid and
comfort of his journey: so he came to the feast, and both kings
hold their state in one hall; thither also was come King Lyngi,
son of King Hunding, and he also is a-wooing the daughter of King
Eylimi.

Now the king deemed he knew that the twain had come thither but
for one errand, and thought withal that war and trouble might be
looked for from the hands of him who brought not his end about;
so he spake to his daughter, and said --

"Thou art a wise woman, and I have spoken it, that thou alone
shalt choose a husband for thyself; choose therefore between
these two kings, and my rede shall be even as thine."

"A hard and troublous matter," says she; "yet will I choose him
who is of greatest fame, King Sigmund to wife albeit he is well
stricken in years."

So to him was she betrothed, and King Lyngi gat him gone. Then
was Sigmund wedded to Hjordis, and now each day was the feast
better and more glorious than on the day before it. But
thereafter Sigmund went back home to Hunland, and King Eylimi,
his father-in-law, with him, and King Sigmund betakes himself to