However, Sehermund knows his personal power, and thus it is very natural for him that the king makes this mistake, for he knows all too well which advantages his life has over the life of a king.

“Full of deep understanding for the situation of the king he therefore insists on the invitation; and here it shows how infinitely gracious this divine sage is: because now he is obliged, as it were, to force something on the king which can only be to the king's highest advantage; and such imploration, to be allowed to guide the king and his whole retinue to perfection, should not be exacted from someone who is really free.

“Now the king must not contradict the sage; having denied in the first place might be taken as a gesture of politeness; but now that the holy man insists on his invitation the will of a king is inferior to the declared will of the sage.

Therefore Helgi accepts the invitation.

“The divine Sehermund summons his sacrificial cow Savala of many deeds and lets her feed the king, as well as his sons and the whole army, in a magic way.