They said, "For certain he does. He has been married to her these two years."
"There's time yet," said Gunnar; "these are early days. Is she a young woman?"
"She is in the flower of her age. She must be sixteen years old."
"And is she of this country?"
"It is not certainly known. A woman from the South had her. She said that her husband had been slain on the sea-coast; but no one here can say anything of it because no one has ever seen the sea. Well, when the girl was of marriageable age Frey chose her; so she was given him."
"And how did Frey choose her?"
"He took her."
Gunnar thought all this very remarkable, and said that he should himself go to see Frey. They answered to that, that undoubtedly he would; for if he did not they would be bound to take him, as an offering, since that was Frey's pleasure.
"Does Frey demand human sacrifice?" Gunnar asked. They said that he did.
Gunnar said, "He shall be baulked of me; but I have a very handsome cloak about me, which I shall give him as a present if he pleases to be benevolent to me."