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 foster-daughter, Hiördis; but thou, Sigurd, didst take Dagny, my own child, and sailed with her over the sea. For that I now doom thee to pay three hundred pieces of silver, and thereby shall thy misdeed be atoned.

Fair is thy judgment, Örnulf; the three hundred pieces will I pay, and add thereto a silken cloak fringed with gold. 'Tis a gift from King Æthelstan of England, and better has no Icelander yet borne.

Well said, my brave husband; and my father, I thank thee. Now at last is my mind at ease.

[She presses her father's and brothers' hands, and talks low to them.

Then thus stands the troth between us; and from this day shall Dagny be to the full as honourably regarded as though she had been lawfully betrothed to thee, with the good will of her kin.

And in me canst thou trust, as in one of thine own blood.

That I doubt not, and will forthwith prove thy friendship.

Ready shalt thou find me; say, what dost thou crave?

Thy help in rede and deed. I have sailed hither