"
King Siggeir grew wroth at these words, and deemed Sigmund had
answered him scornfully, but whereas was a wary man and a double-
dealing, he made as if he heeded this matter in nowise, yet that
same evening he thought how he might reward it, as was well seen
afterwards.
ENDNOTES:
(1) Rede (A.S. raed), counsel, advice, a tale or prophecy.
(2) The man is Odin, who is always so represented, because he
gave his eye as a pledge for a draught from the fountain of
Mimir, the source of all wisdom.
CHAPTER IV.
How King Siggeir wedded Signy, and bade King Volsung and his son
to Gothland.
Now it is to be told that Siggeir goes to bed by Signy that
night, and the next morning the weather was fair; then says King
Siggeir that he will not bide, lest the wind should wax, or the
sea grow impassable; nor is it said that Volsung or his sons
letted him herein, and that the less, because they saw that he
was fain to get him gone from the feast. But now says Signy to
her father --
"I have no will to go away with Seggeir, neither does my heart
smile upon him, and I wot, by my fore-knowledge, and from the
fetch (1) of our kin, that from this counsel will great evil fall
on us if this wedding be not speedily undone.
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