But now I grow weary with my wounds, and I will go see
our kin that have gone before me."
So Hjordis sat over him till he died at the day-dawning; and then
she looked, and behold, there came many ships sailing to the
land: then she spake to the handmaid --
"Let us now change raiment, and be thou called by my name, and
say that thou art the king's daughter."
And thus they did; but now the vikings behold the great slaughter
of men there, and see where two women fare away thence into the
wood; and they deem that some great tidings must have befallen,
and they leaped ashore from out their ships. Now the captain of
these folks was Alf, son of Hjalprek, king of Denmark, who was
sailing with his power along the land. So they came into the
field among the slain, and saw how many men lay dead there; then
the king bade go seek for the women and bring them thither, and
they did so. He asked them what women they were; and, little as
the thing seems like to be, the bondmaid answered for the twain,
telling of the fall of King Sigmund and King Eylimi, and many
another great man, and who they were withal who had wrought the
deed.
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