Then the king asks if they wotted where the wealth of the
king was bestowed; and then says the bondmaid --
"It may well be deemed that we know full surely thereof."
And therewith she guides them to the place where the treasure
lay: and there they found exceeding great wealth; so that men
deem they have never seen so many things of price heaped up
together in one place. All this they bore to the ships of King
Alf, and Hjordis and bondmaid went them. Therewith these sail
away to their own realm, and talk how that surely on that field
had fallen the most renowned of kings.
So the king sits by the tiller, but the women abide in the
forecastle; but talk he had with the women and held their
counsels of much account.
In such wise the king came home to his realm with great wealth,
and he himself was a man exceeding goodly to look on. But when
he had been but a little while at home, the queen, his mother,
asked him why the fairest of the two women had the fewer rings
and the less worthy attire.
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