"Yet why should they not do so, as they live at all?
If so, perhaps I am that Wanderer, in whose body I seemed to be, only then I am sure that the lady with the golden shells was not Iduna." And again I laughed.
"No, Olaf, she was not Iduna, though perchance there was an Iduna, all the same.

Tell me, did you see aught of that priestess who was with the lady ?" "Only that she was tall and dark, one of middle age.

But why waste words on this midnight madness?
Yet that royal woman haunts me.

I would that I could see her again, if only in a dream.

Also, Freydisa, I would that Iduna had not taken the necklace.