"
On a night Gudrun pours out the drink, and Sigurd beholds her how
fair she is and how full of all courtesy.
Five seasons Sigurd abode there, and ever they passed their days
together in good honour and friendship.
And so it befell that the king held talk together, and Giuki said
--
"Great good thou givest us, Sigurd, and with exceeding strength
thou strengthenest our realm."
Then Gunnar said, "All things that may be will we do for thee, so
thou abidest here long; both dominion shall thou have, and our
sister freely and unprayed for, whom another man would not get
for all his prayers."
Sigurd says, "Thanks have ye for this wherewith; ye honour me,
and gladly will I take the same."
Therewith they swore brotherhood together, and to be even as if
they were children of one father and one mother; and a noble
feast was holden, and endured many days, and Sigurd drank at the
wedding of him and Gudrun; and there might men behold all manner
of game and glee, and each day the feast was better and better.
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