"Keep thy seat!" she says, "and keep it too all the time thou art my
guest."

Then she sat herself down by Hrut, and they fell to drink, and at even
she said--

"Thou shalt be in the upper chamber with me to-night, and we two
together."

"You shall have your way," he answers.

After that they went to sleep, and she locked the door inside. So they
slept that night, and in the morning fell to drinking again. Thus they
spent their life all that half-month, and Gunnhillda said to the men who
were there--

"Ye shall lose nothing except your lives if you say to any one a word of
how Hrut and I are going on."

[When the half-month was over] Hrut gave her a hundred ells of household
woollen and twelve rough cloaks, and Gunnhillda thanked him for his
gifts. Then Hrut thanked her and gave her a kiss and went away. She bade
him "farewell". And next day he went before the king with thirty men
after him and bade the king "good-day". The king said--

"Now, Hrut, thou wilt wish me to carry out towards thee what I
promised."

So Hrut was made one of the king's body-guard, and he asked, "Where
shall I sit?"