Marks fully twenty thousand the goods are worth, which they to you have given.”

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Then the king thus answered: “Blessings on my guests!

I now will share with others the riches in these chests.”

Then to his knights was given whate’er of these they wanted;

To every one among them all that he might wish by the king was granted.

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The king now seated near him both the two young men,—

Irold and also Horant; he began to ask them then,

“Whence to his kingdom sailing, they to come had striven?