his words, and arose, and greeted him meetly, and he abode there
three nights, and they lay in one bed together; but he took the
sword Gram and laid it betwixt them: then she asked him why he
laid it there; and he answered, that in that wise must he needs
wed his wife or else get his bane.

Then she took from off her the ring Andvari's loom, which he had
given her aforetime, and gave it to him, but he gave her another
ring out of Fafnir's hoard.

Thereafter he rode away through the same fire unto his Fellows,
and he and Gunnar changed semblances again, and rode unto
Hlymdale, and told how it had gone with them.

That same day went Brynhild home to her foster-father, and tells
him as one whom she trusted, how that there had come a king to
her; "And he rode through my flaming fire, and said he was come
to woo me, and named himself Gunnar; but I said that such a deed
might Sigurd alone have done, with whom I plighted troth on the
mountain; and he is my first troth-plight, and my well-beloved."

Heimir said that things must needs abide even as now they had now
come to pass.

Brynhild said, "Aslaug the daughter of me and Sigurd shall be
nourished here with thee."

Now the kings fare home, but Brynhild goes to her father;
Grimhild welcomes the kings meetly, and thanks Sigurd for his
fellowship; and withal is a great feast made, and many were the