He does not will that any should be less merry because of him." So the feast went on, though the great empty chair seemed to damp the merriment sadly.

I asked Odda if this trouble often befell the king.
"Ay, over often," he said, "and one knows not when it will come.

No leech knows what it is, and all one can say is that it seems to harm him not at all when it has gone." I asked no more, but the king did not come back to the feast, as he would at times when things happened thus.

It seemed that often the trouble fell on him when feasting, and some have said that it was sent to prevent him becoming over proud, at his own prayer {vii}.
Soon the Danes rose up, and would go.

Some of the great thanes set them forth with all honour, and the feast ended.