Völmung left Heiðrrán after only two days. During that time, dark rumours and gossip fluttered from house to house, as the people gazed on him with either suspicion, or a strange sort of fascination. His face, when Sigrún had the chance to see it in the light of day, rather than cast in the shadows of twilight was far more masculine and daunting than she had originally thought it to be. She was not alone among the village-girls to think him handsome, for though his face was long and his nose somewhat long, there was a regal air to his face and a nobility to his features. But if he captivated more than one village-girl, they failed to impress him for he was to remain distant and distracted.
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