'
He said furthermore: 'How great we have been I have told you
already; and ye shall see for yourselves how little we be now. Is it
enough, and will ye have us for friends and brothers? How say ye?'
They answered with shout upon shout, so that all the place and the
wild-wood round about was full of the voice of their crying; but when
the clamour fell, then spake the Alderman and said:
'Friend, and chieftain of the Wolf, thou mayst hear by this shouting
of the people that we have no mind to naysay our yea-say. And know
that it is not our use and manner to seek the strong for friends, and
to thrust aside the weak; but rather to choose for our friends them
who are of like mind to us, men in whom we put our trust. From
henceforth then there is brotherhood between us; we are yours, and ye
are ours; and let this endure for ever!'
Then were all men full of joy; and now at last the battle seemed at
hand, and the peace beyond the battle.
Then men brought the hallowed beasts all garlanded with flowers into
the Doom-ring, and there were they slain and offered up unto the
Gods, to wit the Warrior, the Earth-god, and the Fathers; and
thereafter was solemn feast holden on the Field of the Folk-mote, and
all men were fain and merry.
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