HRUT SAILS OUT TO ICELAND.
Hrut stayed with the king that winter in good cheer, but when spring came he grew very silent. Gunnhillda finds that out, and said to him when they two were alone together—
"Art thou sick at heart?"
"So it is," said Hrut, "as the saying runs—'Ill goes it with those who are born on a barren land'."
"Wilt thou to Iceland?" she asks.
"Yes," he answered.
"Hast thou a wife out there?" she asked; and he answers, "No".
"But I am sure that is true," she says; and so they ceased talking about the matter.
[Shortly after] Hrut went before the king and bade him "good day"; and the king said, "What dost thou want now, Hrut?"
"I am come to ask, lord, that you give me leave to go to Iceland."