took the corpse in his arms and fared away to the wood, and went
till he came to a certain firth; and then he saw a man in a
little boat; and that man asked if he would be wafted by him over
the firth, and he said yes thereto; but so little was the boat,
that they might not all go in it at once, so the corpse was first
laid therein, while Sigmund went by the firth-side. But
therewith the boat and the man therein vanished away from before
Sigmund's eyes. (2)

So thereafter Sigmund turned back home, and drave away the queen,
and a little after she died. But Sigmund the king yet ruled his
realm, and is deemed ever the greatest champion and king of the
old law.


ENDNOTES:
(1) Weregild, fine for man-slaying ("wer", man, and "gild", a
payment).
(2) The man in the boat is Odin, doubtless.



CHAPTER XI.

Of King Sigmund's last Battle, and of how he must yield up his
Sword again.

There was a king called Eylimi, mighty and of great fame, and his
daughter was called Hjordis, the fairest and wisest of womankind;
and Sigmund hears it told of her that she was meet to be his