It is enough." "I have heard it said," I went on, for here was somewhat which troubled me, "that you Christians hold that we worship fiends--that the Asir are such." "That were to wrong the heroes of the past, my son," he answered.
"It is meant that you know not what you worship under those honoured names.

There are those among you who know that the Asir were your forefathers.

Did you ever hear that Alfred, the wise and most Christian king of England, was ashamed of that ancestry of his ?" "I myself cannot be ashamed thereof.

I am from the line of Odin," I said.

"If you speak truth, father, one count against Christians has passed, from my mind at least." But now Gerda spoke timidly, for she too had her question at this time.
"What of women, father?
Is there a place for them in the heaven of which you speak?
Was it won for us ?" "Most truly, my daughter.