"Now stepped Halfdan in Over the brazen threshold, and with wistful look Stood silent, at a distance from the dreaded one.

Shortly after this Belé and Thorsten met for the last time, near the magnificent shrine of Balder, where the king, feeling that his end was near, had convened a solemn assembly, or Thing, of all his principal subjects, in order to present his sons Helgé and Halfdan to the people as his chosen successors.