 After Hrímgerðr is turned to stone by the daylight , a prose narrative continues that Helgi , who is now king , goes to Sváva 's father — King Eylimi — and asks for his daughter . Helgi and Sváva are betrothed and love one another dearly . Sváva stays at home with King Eylimi , and Helgi goes raiding , and to this the narrative adds that Sváva " was a valkyrie just as before " . The poem continues , and , among various other events , Helgi dies from a wound received in battle . A narrative at the end of the poem says that Helgi and his valkyrie wife Sváva " are said to be reincarnated " . 
