"
Then said King Giuki, "Be thou welcome here then, and take at our
hands whatso thou wiliest."
So he went into the king's hall, and all men seemed little beside
him, and all men served him, and there he abode in great joyance.
Now oft they all ride abroad together, Sigurd and Gunnar and
Hogni, and ever is Sigurd far the foremost of them, mighty men of
their hands though they were.
But Grimhild finds how heartily Sigurd loved Brynhild, and how
oft he talks of her; and she falls to thinking how well it were,
if he might abide there and wed the daughter of King Giuki, for
she saw that none might come anigh to his goodliness, and what
faith and goodhelp there was in him, and how that he had more
wealth withal than folk might tell of any man; and the king did
to him even as unto his own sons, and they for their parts held
him of more worth than themselves.
So on a night as they sat at the drink, the queen arose, and went
before Sigurd, and said --
"Great joy we have in thine abiding here, and all good things
will we put before thee to take of us; lo now, take this horn and
drink thereof.
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