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"Tell me, if you value your life, what means this solitude?" Estein demanded sternly. "Nay, shake not like an old man with palsy, but speak the truth if by chance a Jemtlander knows what truth is. Where are the people?" "Noble earl, they have heard of your coming, and fled. No man will await you; you will see none in the country." "Do none mean to fight?" asked Helgi.
"I thought I heard the voice of a girl; but when I woke more fully, it was gone, indeed. It sounded like but it was my dream;" and lying down again, he closed his eyes. "Should I tell him?" thought Helgi; "nay, I promised Atli, and after all this is mine own adventure." By the time the day had fairly broken, they were away under Jomar's guidance.
Listen, and I will tell you the story of this spell; but remember it is to you alone I tell it, and never must another know of my shame." "Have you ever known me betray your trust?" "Never, Helgi, my brother, or you would not hear this tale. To me it seems the story of six years of my life, though it was scarcely as many weeks; but I shall make it as brief as I may." "The hour is yet early."
Helgi slew Hrodmar and married Svava, having escaped from the sea-giantess Hrimgerd through the protection of his Valkyrie bride and the wit of a faithful servant. His brother Hedin, through the spells of a troll-wife, swore to wed Helgi's bride. Repenting, he told his brother, who, dying in a fight with Hrodmar's son, charged Svava to marry Hedin.
The story which Saxo tells of his driving into battle with Harald War-tooth, disguised as the latter's charioteer Brun, and turning the fight against him by revealing to his enemy Ring the order of battle which he had invented for Harald's advantage, is in thorough agreement with the traditional character of the God who betrayed Sigmund the Volsung and Helgi Hundingsbane.
I heard naught of them, and wish only to hear of their deaths. Too many enemies have I helped already." Helgi was about to reply hotly, but Atli checked him with a gesture, whispering, "Will not his deeds atone for his words?" Low as he spoke, Jomar caught the words, and muttered loud enough to be heard, "Would that my words might become my deeds."
The collector again adds a note: "Helgi and Sigrun are said to have been born again: he was then called Helgi Haddingjaskati, and she Kara Halfdan's daughter, as it is told in the Kara-ljod, and she was a Valkyrie." This third Helgi legend does not survive in verse, the Kara-ljod having perished.
Olaf and Thorgerd had still more children; three sons were called Steinthor and Halldor and Helgi, and Hoskuld was the name of the youngest of Olaf's sons. The daughters of Olaf and his wife were named Bergthora, Thorgerd, and Thorbjorg. All their children were of goodly promise as they grew up. At that time Holmgang Bersi lived in Saurby at an abode called Tongue.
Halldor did not flatly refuse to deal further with the case. "I know only too well that Thorgils Hallason and Bolli's sons were minded to fall on me and my brothers, until you turned elsewhere their vengeance, so that thence-forward it seemed to them best to slay Helgi Hardbeinson.
'Ah, but these chiefs are not of the kind that slew Gunnar, answered Skarphedinn, 'for they turned a deaf ear to Mord's evil counsel to set fire to Lithend, so that Gunnar and his wife and mother should be burnt up in it. But this band care nothing for what is fair and honourable, so long as we leave our bones behind us. Then Helgi spoke: 'Let us do as our father wills.
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