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Afterwards Hagbard dressed himself in woman's attire, and, as though he had not wronged Sigar's daughter by slaying her brothers, went back to her alone, trusting in the promise he had from her, and feeling more safe in her loyalty than alarmed by reason of his own misdeed. Thus does lust despise peril.
"What were they going to do with you when they took you?" Vermund asked. "To Sigar's lot my neck was destined when noble Thorbjorg came upon them." "Would they have hanged you then if they had been left to themselves?" "My neck would soon have been in the noose, had she not wisely saved the bard." "Did she invite you to her home?" "She bade me home with her to fare.
After this deed Hagbarth dared not remain at Sigar's court; but he longed so much to be with Signé, that he dressed himself as a woman, and in this disguise he obtained admission to the palace, and contrived to be named one of her attendants.
"Ill luck-to me That I should be On sea-roof-firth Borne unto earth; Ill luck enow To lie alow, This head of mine Griped fast by swine." "What were they minded to do to thee," said Vermund, "when they took thee there?" Quoth Grettir "There many men Bade give me then E'en Sigar's meed For lovesome deed; Till found me there That willow fair, Whose leaves are praise, Her stems good days."
The serving-women betrayed him; and when Sigar's men-at-arms attacked him, he defended himself long and stubbornly, and slew many of them in the doorway. But at last he was taken, and brought before the assembly, and found the voices of the people divided over him.
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