"
Hogni answers, "A marvel is it to me of his bidding, for seldom
hath he done in such a wise, and ill counselled will it be to
wend to him; lo now, when I saw those dear-bought things the king
sends us I wondered to behold a wolfs hair knit to a certain gold
ring; belike Gudrun deems him to be minded as a wolf towards us,
and will have naught of our faring."
But withal Vingi shows him the runes which he said Gudrun had
sent.
Now the most of folk go to bed, but these drank on still with
certain others; and Kostbera, the wife of Hogni, the fairest of
women, came to them, and looked on the runes.
But the wife of Gunnar was Glaumvor, a great hearted wife.
So these twain poured out, and the kings drank and were exceeding
drunken, and Vingi notes it, and says --
"Naught may I hide that King Atli is heavy of foot and over-old
for the warding of his realm; but his sons are young and of no
account: now will he give you rule over his realms while they are
yet thus young, and most fain will he be that ye have the joy
thereof before all others.
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