He said: “I thank you kindly, as I of right should do

He said: “I thank you kindly, as I of right should do.” Then he bade that his stewards to see the gifts should go; And also that the clothing, piece by piece, be shown them. Glad were they to see them, and wondered greatly as they gazed upon them.

Then said one of the stewards: “Hear now the truth I tell: Chests there are of silver, and filled with gold as well, With many costly jewels, rich and kingly even: Marks fully twenty thousand the goods are worth, which they to you have given.”

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.

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? Gifts so rich and worthy have ne’er before by guests to me been given.”