What gift do I need?
Jatgeir.
My lord, you are a king.
King Skule.
Have you at all times full faith that you are a skald?
Jatgeir.
[Looks silently at him for a while, and asks.] Have you never loved?
King Skule.
Yes, once—burningly, blissfully, and in sin.
Jatgeir.