Now Skeggi had the oversight of Dalla's affairs, and they were great friends; so she said, "He will lend the sword, though not all at once." That was not what he wanted, answered Cormac,--"If he withhold it not from thee, while he does withhold it from me." Upon which she answered that he was a thwart lad.
A few days afterwards Dalla told him to go to Reykir.

"He will lend thee the sword now," said she.

So he sought Skeggi and asked for Skofnung.
"Hard wilt thou find it to handle," said Skeggi.

"There is a pouch to it, and that thou shalt let be.

Sun must not shine on the pommel of the hilt.