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The king was prevailed upon by her answers, and highly approved her requests. Gotar's constant talks with Erik furnished him with a store of most fairshapen maxims, wherewith to rejoice and refresh his mind.
So, not satisfied with giving him his daughter in marriage he also made over to him the district of Lither, thinking that their connection deserved some kindness.
Now Kraka, whom Erik, because of her cunning in witchcraft, had brought with him on his travels, feigned weakness of the eyes, and muffled up her face in her cloak, so that not a single particle of her head was visible for recognition.
When people asked her who she was, she said that she was Gunwar's sister, child of the same mother but a different father. Now when they came to the dwelling of Gotar, the wedding-feast of Alfhild (this was his daughter's name) was being held.
Erik and the king sat at meat in different rooms, with a party-wall in common, and also entirely covered on the inside with hanging tapestries.
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