"
Now so it befell both that Gunnar was drunk, and that dominion
was held out to him, nor might he work against the fate shapen
for him; so he gave his word to go, and tells Hogni his brother
thereof.
But he answered, "Thy word given must even stand now, nor will I
fail to follow thee, but most loth am I to journey."
ENDNOTES:
(1) Service-tree; "pyrus sorbus domestica", or "p. s.
tormentalis.
CHAPTER XXXV.
The Dreams of the Wives of the Giukings.
So when men had drunk their fill, they fared to sleep; then falls
Kostbera to beholding the runes, and spelling over the letters,
and sees that beneath were other things cut, and that the runes
are guileful, yet because of her wisdom she had skill to read
them aright. So then she goes to bed by her husband; but when
they awoke, she spake unto Hogni --
"Thou art minded to wend away from home -- ill-counselled is
that; abide till another time! Scarce a keen reader of runes art
thou, if thou deemest thou hast beheld in them the bidding of thy
sister to this journey: lo, I read them the runes, and had marvel
of so wise a woman as Gudrun is, that she should have miscut
them; but that which lieth underneath beareth your bane with it,
-- yea, either she lacked a letter, or others have dealt
guilefully with the runes.
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