It bodes ill when one such as he rules — a devious-minded king whose loyalty is reserved for himself only, and honors no alliances born of blood or guest-friendship. May your lord Odin soon wake and reclaim his rightful place.

As for me, it is my noble father's house to which I devote my highest loyalty, although some ten years have passed since I set sail from fertile Phthia in the fifty beaked ships Peleus granted me. There in the dear native land I left behind, my noble father grows frail with old age waiting for a son who shall never be allowed safe return.