Therefore he would not come back to ask for her before he had wiped away both marks of shame by winning glory in war.
Halfdan entreated her to suffer no man to be privy to her bed until she heard certain tidings either of his return or his death.

The champions, whom he had bereaved of their brother long ago, were angry that he had spoken to Gurid, and tried to ride after him as he went away.

When he saw it, he told his comrades to go into ambush, and said he would encounter the champions alone.

His followers lingered, and thought it shameful to obey his orders, but he drove them off with threats, saying that Gurid should not find that fear had made him refuse to fight.
Presently he cut down an oak-tree and fashioned it into a club, fought the twelve single-handed, and killed them.

After their destruction, not content with the honours of so splendid an action, and meaning to do one yet greater, he got from his mother the swords of his grandfather, one of which was called Lyusing....