(35)
"Who sits in the seat of the warriors,
With the skin of the bear wrapped around him,
So wild in his look? -- Ye have welcomed
A wolf to your table, good kinsfolk!
Ah, now may I know him, I reckon!
Doth he name himself Bruin, or Hoodie? --
We shall meet once again in the morning,
And maybe he'll prove to be -- Steinar."

"And it's no use for thee to hide thy name, thou in the
bearskin," said he.

"No more it is," he answered. "Steinar I am, and I have brought
money to pay thee for Cormac, if so be it is needed. But first I
bid thee to fight. It will have to be seen whether thou get the
two marks of silver, or whether thou lose them both."

Upon which quoth Bersi: --

(36)
"They that waken the storm of the spear-points --
For slaughter and strife they are famous --
To the island they bid me for battle,
Nor bitter I think it nor woeful;
For long in that craft am I learned
To loosen the Valkyrie's tempest
In the lists, and I fear not to fight them --
Unflinching in battle am I.