Then the sons of Hunding draw together a great army to avenge
their father. Hard was the fight betwixt them; but Helgi goes
through the folk of those brothers unto their banner, and there
slays these sons of Hunding, Alf and Eyolf, Herward and Hagbard,
and wins there a great victory.
Now as Helgi fared from the fight he met a many women right fair
and worthy to look on, who rode in exceeding noble array; but one
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.
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