By it, in different groups, sat the king on one side and the champions on the other.

These latter, when Erik joined them, uttered gruesome sounds like things howling.

The king stopped the clamour, telling them that the noises of wild beasts ought not to be in the breasts of men.

Erik added, that it was the way of dogs, for all the others to set up barking when one started it; for all folk by their bearing betrayed their birth and revealed their race.

But when Koll, who was the keeper of the gifts offered to the king, asked him whether he had brought any presents with him, he produced the ice which he had hidden in his breast.