So they send for their friends, and array their horses, their
helms, and their shields, and their byrnies, and all their war-
gear; and their journey was furnished forth in the noblest wise,
and no champion who was of the great men might abide at home; and
their horses were clad in mail-coats, and every knight of them
had his helm done over with gold or with silver.
Grimhild was of their company, for she said that their errand
would never be brought fairly to pass if she sat at home.
There were well five hundred men, and noble men rode with them.
There was Waldemar of Denmark, and Eymod and Jarisleif withal.
So they went into the hall of King Alf, and there abode them the
Longbeards and Franks, and Saxons: they fared with all their war-
gear, and had over them red fur-coats. Even as the song says --
"Byrnies short cut,
Strong helms hammered,
Girt with good swords,
Red hair gleaming."
They were fain to choose good gifts for their sister, and spake
softly to her, but in none of them would she trow.
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