This manner of propitiation by sacrifice he repeated as an annual feast, and left posterity to follow.
This rite the Swedes call Froblod (the sacrifice or feast of Frey).
Hadding chanced to hear that a certain giant had taken in troth Ragnhild, daughter of Hakon, King of the Nitherians; and, loathing so ignominious a state of affairs, and utterly abominating the destined union, he forestalled the marriage by noble daring.

For he went to Norway and overcame by arms him that was so foul, a lover for a princess.

For he thought so much more of valour than of ease, that, though he was free to enjoy all the pleasures of a king, he accounted it sweeter than any delight to repel the wrongs done, not only to himself, but to others.

The maiden, not knowing him, ministered with healing tendance to the man that had done her kindness and was bruised with many wounds.

And in order that lapse of time might not make her forget him, she shut up a ring in his wound, and thus left a mark on his leg.
Afterwards her father granted her freedom to choose her own husband; so when the young men were assembled at banquet, she went along them and felt their bodies carefully, searching for the tokens she had stored up long ago.