They call her 'Uldra', though why I know not." That was the name of the water spirit they believed in.

So I became all the more sure that Gunnhild was there.

It would be easy for her to feign to be the White Lady and so terrify any man who sought her.

A man is apt to shape aught he sees into what he fears he may see.
"Has the White Lady been seen of late ?" I asked therefore.
"I have heard that the Danes say that they have seen her," he answered.

"They have seen also bale fires burning on the mound where the great queen lies." That last was an old tale among us also, but I had never seen any light above the great mound.