ABSTRACT
There were once women in Denmark who dressed themselves to look like men and spent almost every minute cultivating soldiers' skills, they did not want the sinews of their valour to lose tautness and be infected by self-indulgence. At the beginning of spring Alf and Alger resumed their pirating expeditions. During the same period Hildigisl, a man of noble Teuton family, requested the hand of Sigars's daughter Signe, confident in his handsomeness and rank. Now while Hagbarth was on his way to Denmark with Sigar's sons, unknown to them he managed to talk with their sister and eventually extracted from her a faithful promise to become his mistress secretly. Someone reported to Archbishop Absalon that he had seen a beam which a peasant had discovered in that spot when his ploughshare struck it as he was turning up the soil.
