The servants came in to look at their dead Emperor . The Emperor said , ` Good-morning ! ' HERMOD AND HADVOR -LRB- 32 -RRB- -LRB- 32 -RRB- From the Icelandic . Once upon a time there were a King and a Queen who had an only daughter , called Hadvor , who was fair and beautiful , and being an only child , was heir to the kingdom . The King and Queen had also a foster son , named Hermod , who was just about the same age as Hadvor , and was good-looking , as well as clever at most things . Hermod and Hadvor often played together while they were children , and liked each other so much that while they were still young they secretly plighted their troth to each other . As time went on the Queen fell sick , and suspecting that it was her last illness , sent for the King to come to her . When he came she told him that she had no long time to live , and therefore wished to ask one thing of him , which was , that if he married another wife he should promise to take no other one than the Queen of Hetland the Good . The King gave the promise , and thereafter the Queen died . Time went past , and the King , growing tired of living alone , fitted out his ship and sailed out to sea . As he sailed there came upon him so thick a mist that he altogether lost his bearings , but after long trouble he found land . There he laid his ship to , and went on shore all alone . After walking for some time he came to a forest , into which he went a little way and stopped . Then he heard sweet music from a harp , and went in the direction of the sound until he came to a clearing , and there he saw three women , one of whom sat on a golden chair , and was beautifully and grandly dressed ; she held a harp in her hands , and was very sorrowful . The second was also finely dressed , but younger in appearance , and also sat on a chair , but it was not so grand as the first one 's . The third stood beside them , and was very pretty to look at ; she had a green cloak over her other clothes , and it was easy to see that she was maid to the other two . After the King had looked at them for a little he went forward and saluted them . The one that sat on the golden chair asked him who he was and where he was going ; and he told her all the story -- how he was a king , and had lost his queen , and was now on his way to Hetland the Good , to ask the Queen of that country in marriage . She answered that fortune had contrived this wonderfully , for pirates had plundered Hetland and killed the King , and she had fled from the land in terror , and had come hither after great trouble , and she was the very person he was looking for , and the others were her daughter and maid . The King immediately asked her hand ; she gladly received his proposal and accepted him at once .
Thereafter they all set out , and made their way to the ship ; and XXXXX that nothing is told of their voyage until the King reached his own country .
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