midday
But now I will tell thee how it was that we came here . '' `` Well , '' began King Harald , `` our home is in Thuleland , as the Skalds call it ; in Goetaland , as we name it . For Thuleland is the land where one does _ not _ dwell ; where only , still nearer to the ice-mountains , _ other _ people live . Our realm reaches , towards the rising of the sun , to the sea and our island , Gothland ; towards the setting of the sun , as far as Hallin and the Skioldungahaff ; towards midday , to Smaland , Skone , and the kingdom of the Sea-Danes ; towards midnight , to Svealand . The King is my father , Frode , whom Odin loves . He is much wiser than I ; but he has now crowned me as Vi-king , upon the sacred-stone at King-Sala , because he is already a hundred years old , and quite blind . Now the minstrels in our halls still sing the legends which tell that you Goths were originally our brothers , and that only by reason of the wandering of the peoples have you gradually drawn nearer to the south ; for you followed the flight of the crane from the Caucasus , but we the running of the wolf . ''