But he did not wish to pass the kindness of the youth unrequited, and rewarded the esteem he had shown him with the mantle he had cast among the thorns.

So the peasant's son approached, replaced the parts of his belly that had been torn away, and bound up with a plait of withies the mass of intestines that had fallen out.

Then he took the old man to his car, and with the most zealous respect carried him away to the palace.
Meantime Helga, in language betokening the greatest wariness, began to instruct her husband, saying that she knew that Starkad, as soon as he came back from conquering the champions, would punish him for his absence, thinking that he had inclined more to sloth and lust than to his promise to fight as appointed.

Therefore he must withstand Starkad boldly, because he always spared the brave but loathed the coward.

Helge respected equally her prophecy and her counsel, and braced his soul and body with a glow of valorous enterprise.