Now on a time as they fare abroad in the wood for the getting of
wealth, they find a certain house, and two men with great gold
rings asleep therein: now these twain were spell-bound skin-
changers, (1) and wolf-skins were hanging up over them in the
house; and every tenth day might they come out of those skins;
and they were kings' sons: so Sigmund and Sinfjofli do the wolf-
skins on them, and then might they nowise come out of them,
though forsooth the same nature went with them as heretofore;
they howled as wolves howl but both knew the meaning of that
howling; they lay out in the wild-wood, and each went his way;
and a word they made betwixt them, that they should risk the
onset of seven men, but no more, and that he who was first to be
set on should howl in wolfish wise: "Let us not depart from
this," says Sigmund, "for thou art young and over-bold, and men
will deem the quarry good, when they take thee."
Now each goes his way, and when they were parted, Sigmund meets
certain men, and gives forth a wolf's howl; and when Sinfjotli
heard it, he went straightway thereto, and slew them all, and
once more they parted.
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