Ferryman?

Borghild came a third time with a drinking horn and told Sinfjotli to
drink it, if he had the courage of a Volsung.

Sinfjotli took the drinking horn and said, “There is some poison in
the drink.”

Sigmund said, “Wet your mustache, son!” King Sigmund was
extremely drunk, which is why he spoke this way. Sinfjotli drank it, and
he fell dead immediately.

Sigmund stood up, and his sorrow nearly killed him. He took
Sinfjotli’s body in his arms and carried him to the forest. Finally he
came to a fjord where he saw a man on a small boat. The man offered to
ferry him over the fjord, and Sigmund accepted. The boat was too small
to hold all three of them, and so the ferryman took Sinfjotli’s body first,
and Sigmund walked along the shore. But in the next moment, the boat
and the ferryman disappeared.

After this, Sigmund went home. He banished his queen, and a little
later she died. King Sigmund still ruled his realm and was thought to be
the greatest champion and king in his time.


- Volsunga Saga, Chapter 10