"
"Yet again I dreamed," said he, "and methought I lay in a bath,
and folk took counsel to slay me."
Now these things wear away with time, but in nowise was their
life together fond.
Now falls Atli to thinking of where may be gotten that plenteous
gold which Sigurd had owned, but King Gunnar and his brethren
were lords thereof now.
Atli was a great king and mighty, wise, and a lord of many men;
and now he falls to counsel with his folk as to the ways of them.
He wotted well that Gunnar and his brethren had more wealth than
any others might have, and so he falls to the rede of sending men
to them, and bidding them to a great feast, and honouring them in
diverse wise, and the chief of those messengers was hight Vingi.
Now the queen wots of their conspiring, and misdoubts her that
this would mean some beguiling of her brethren: so she cut runes,
and took a gold ring, and knit therein a wolf's hair, and gave it
into the hands of the king's messengers.
Thereafter they go their ways according to the king's bidding:
and or ever they came aland Vingi beheld the runes, and turned
them about in such wise as if Gudrun prayed her brethren in her
runes to go meet King Atli.
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