[All]: This stanza, like the previous one, draws a contrast between the speaker’s situation and happier days in female company, the difference being that Friðþjófr speaks as a privileged suitor, while his foster-brother, Ásmundr, can only think of menial tasks in the presence of women, like serving meals, something Friðþjófr teases him about in both prose versions of the saga. The stanza is in fornyrðislag.