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 and of a sea-wife coming into the dwellings of men. Quoth Osberne, I were fain to look on the sea and to sail it. Yea, said Elfhild, but thou wilt take me with thee, wilt thou not? O, yea, said Osberne. And they both forgat the Sundering Flood, and how they should never meet, as they sat each side of the fearful water, and the tale and sweet speech sped to and fro betwixt them. So a fair ending had that day of tryst.