The champions, whose brother he had himself slain in his boyhood, were away.

He told her that she ought to loose her virgin zone, and exchange her austere chastity for deeds of love; that she ought not to give in so much to her inclination for modesty as to be too proud to make a match, and so by her service repair the fallen monarchy.

So he bade her look on himself, who was of eminently illustrious birth, in the light of a husband, since it appeared that she would only admit pleasure for the reason he had named.
Gurid answered that she could not bring her mind to ally the remnants of the royal line to a man of meaner rank.

Not content with reproaching his obscure birth, she also taunted his unsightly countenance.

Halfdan rejoined that she brought against him two faults: one that his blood was not illustrious enough; another, that he was blemished with a cracked lip whose scar had never healed.