Endowed with gold,
If thou couldst but get her.
To Gjuke lie
Green paths,
Fortune beckons
The wanderers forward;
There a famous king
Has fostered a daughter,—
Her thou, Sigurd, must win.
Sigurd followed the track of the dragon to his nest and found it open. Its doors and door-frames, and all the beams and posts of the place, were of iron, but the treasure was buried in the ground. There Sigurd found a large heap of gold, with which he filled two chests. Then he took the helmet of terror (Æger’s helmet), a gold cuirass, the sword Hrotte, and many treasures, which he put on the back of the horse Grane, but the horse would not proceed before Sigurd mounted it also.