The message of Angantyr.

Then Angantyr said: "Hail, brother! You are welcome! Come in and drink with us, and let us first drink mead in memory of our father, to the honour and glory of us all with full ceremony."

Hlöth said: "We are come hither for a different purpose than to fill our stomachs."

Then Hlöth cried:

Of all the possessions of Heithrek

The half do I now demand;

—His spear and blade and treasures,

His cattle and his land,

His handmaids and his bondmen,