Be counsell’d, King! be just! and save at once
Thy golden crown and thy fair sister’s heart!
Here is my hand: by Asa-Thor I swear
Never again ’tis stretch’d in reconcilement!’”
Tegnér, Frithiof Saga (G. Stephens’s tr.).
Frithiof Banished
But although this offer was received with acclamation by the assembled warriors, Helgé scornfully demanded of Frithiof whether he had spoken with Ingeborg and so defiled the temple of Balder.
A shout of “Say nay, Frithiof! say nay!” broke from the ring of warriors, but he proudly answered: “I would not lie to gain Valhalla. I have spoken to thy sister, Helgé, yet have I not broken Balder’s peace.”
Ingeborg watches her lover depart