In Sigtunir,
The maidens who held me
From leaving thence;
Ale or warriors
Ever more
Hjalmar will not cheer
In the King’s hall.’”
(Hervarar Saga, c. 4 and 5.)
After the burial of the Berserks Odd leaves for Sweden.
“Thereafter Odd laid Hjalmar on the ship and sailed away. Then he used the idrott (skill, art) which had been given him, and hoisted sail in calm weather and sailed home to Sweden with the dead Hjalmar. He landed where he wished to land, and drew up his ship; he placed Hjalmar on his back, walked home to Uppsalir (Upsala) with him, and laid him down at the door of the hall. He went in with the mail-coat of Hjalmar, and also his helmet, and put them down on the floor in front of the king, and told him the tidings which had occurred. Then he went to where Ingibjörg sat in a chair, sewing a shirt for Hjalmar. Odd said: ‘Here is a ring which Hjalmar sent thee on his death-day, and therewith his greeting.’ She took the ring, looked at it, but answered nothing; she sank back between the chair-posts and died at once. Odd burst into loud laughter, and said, ‘Nothing better has occurred for a long time, and I welcome it; now they will enjoy each other dead, which they could not alive.’ Odd took her and carried her with his hands, and laid her in the arms of Hjalmar at the door of the hall, and sent in for the king and told him to look how he had arranged her. Thereafter the king welcomed Odd, and seated him in the high seat at his side. When Odd had rested himself the king said he wanted to make an arvel[[574]] after Hjalmar and Ingibjörg, and raise a mound over them. The king let everything be done as Odd ordered. The helmet and mail-coat of Hjalmar were brought forward, and the men praised his deeds highly, and told how hard it had been to slay him; they were both placed in one mound, and all went to see this great mound, for Odd had it made with much honour. He remained quiet that winter with King Hlodver, who in the autumn gave him men and ten ships, and he went in the summer to seek Ögmund Eythjofsbani again, but found him not” (Orvar Odd’s Saga, c. 14).