If you want to get a good and true friend, or a woman:
Have two silver rings made and leave them lying for nine nights in the nest of a water wagtail or a sparrow. Then take one ring and wear it and give the other to your friend and say in jest to him that this is your ring of friendship and that you wish that it never part from him. Take care, however, that he does not find out about this procedure with the rings. One must work in a similar way to get the love of a good woman.
–from the Galdrabok
