far excelled them all; then Helgi asked them the name of that
their lady and queen, and she named herself Sigrun, and said she
was daughter of King Hogni.

Then said Helgi, "Fare home with us: good welcome shall ye have!"

Then said the king's daughter, "Other work lies before us than to
drink with thee."

"Yea, and what work, king's daughter?" said Helgi.

She answers, "King Hogni has promised me to Hodbrod, the son of
King Granmar, but I have vowed a vow that I will have him to my
husband no more than if he were a crow's son and not a king's;
and yet will the thing come to pass, but and if thou standest in
the way thereof and goest against him with an army, and takest me
away withal; for verily with no king would I rather bide on
bolster than with thee."

"Be of good cheer, king's daughter," says he, "for certes he and
I shall try the matter, or ever thou be given to him; yea, we
shall behold which may prevail against the other; and hereto I
pledge my life."

Thereafter, Helgi sent men with money in their hand to summon his
folk to him, and all his power is called together to Red-Berg:
and there Helgi abode till such time as a great company came to
him from Hedinsey; and therewithal came mighty power from Norvi
Sound aboard great and fair ships. Then King Helgi called to him
the captain of his ships, who was hight Leif, and asked him if he