Then shall you do the bidding of the maiden whom I have loved, my son's daughter, and it shall be well with you, and with those friends of yours and of mine who sleep yonder." Therewith he paused, and his glance went to the things which lay round the boats and in them--the things which had been set in the ship for the hero to take to Asgard with him.
"See these things," he said again.

"They are hers, and not mine.
There will be a time when she will have need of them.

In the place where I shall be is no need of treasure, as I deemed before I knew.
Nor of sword, or mail, or gear of war at all.

And the ways of the peace of that place are the best." Then I was alone on the deck, and the tall figure with the long white beard and hair was no longer before me.

The chamber was closed, even as we had left it, and there was neither sign nor sound to tell me how that had been wrought.