All the rest she rejected, but Hadding she discovered by the sign of the secret ring; then she embraced him, and gave herself to be the wife of him who had not suffered a giant to win her in marriage.
While Hadding was sojourning with her a marvellous portent befell him.
While he was at supper, a woman bearing hemlocks was seen to raise her head beside the brazier, and, stretching out the lap of her robe, seemed to ask, "in what part of the world such fresh herbs had grown in winter ?" The king desired to know; and, wrapping him in her mantle, she drew him with her underground, and vanished.

I take it that the nether gods purposed that he should pay a visit in the flesh to the regions whither he must go when he died.

So they first pierced through a certain dark misty cloud, and then advancing along a path that was worn away with long thoroughfaring, they beheld certain men wearing rich robes, and nobles clad in purple; these passed, they at last approached sunny regions which produced the herbs the woman had brought away.

Going further, they came on a swift and tumbling river of leaden waters, whirling down on its rapid current divers sorts of missiles, and likewise made passable by a bridge.

When they had crossed this, they beheld two armies encountering one another with might and main.