When they are brought to the two strangers, they realise they have been blessed, spill the ale, turn out the lights, and leave with a great crash.
After another year, it is once more the eighth day of Christmas; when King Ólaf is attending mass, two men come to the church door and leave a third, referring to him as a skeleton.
Although Helgi had been happier at King Godmund's court than anywhere else, Ingibjörg had gouged his eyes out on parting, saying the women of Norway would not now have much pleasure from him.
It has been compared to the ballad of "Thomas the Rhymer",[2] and appears to have been influenced by Marie de France's lai Lanval, either directly from the French or via the Norwegian translation, Januals ljóð.
[6][7] Godmund, who varies in characterisation in different Old Norse works, is here "the enemy of the virtuous Christian King Olaf".