The story of "The Lame Dog," the bride of the dog, has long
been popular in Scandinavia (Hylten-Cavallius and Stephens, p.
381. From South Smaland). Saxo, to whom it was familiar, calls
its heroes Otherus and Syritha, and even in the _Edda_ there is
an echo of it in the tale of Freya and Odr. In Denmark the same
story is told under the title of "The Dearest Friend."