"
Gudrun says, "A wavering trust, the trust in luck that change
not!"
Yet because of the king's furthering, and all the matters that
went herewith, is the wooing accomplished; and Swanhild went to
the ship with a goodly company, and sat in the stem beside the
king's son.
Then spake Bikki to Randver, "How good and right it were if thou
thyself had to wife so lovely a woman rather than the old man
there."
Good seemed that word to the heart of the king's son, and he
spake to her with sweet words, and she to him like wise.
So they came aland and go unto the king, and Bikki said to him,
"Meet and right it is, lord, that thou shouldst know what is
befallen, though hard it be to tell of, for the tale must be
concerning thy beguiling, whereas thy son has gotten to him the
full love of Swanhild, nor is she other than his harlot; but
thou, let not the deed be unavenged."
Now many an ill rede had he given the king or this, but of all
his ill redes did this sting home the most; and still would the
king hearken to all his evil redes; wherefore he, who might
nowise still the wrath within him, cried out that Randver should
be taken and tied up to the gallows-tree.
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