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"Methought a bear came in," she says, "and brake up the king's
high-seat, and shook his paws in such a wise that we were all
adrad thereat, and he gat us all together into the mouth of him,
so that we might avail us naught, and thereof fell great horror
on us."
He answered, "Some great storm will befall, whereas thou hadst a
white bear in thy mind."
"An erne methought came in," she says, "and swept adown the hall,
and drenched me and all of us with blood, and ill shall that
betoken, for methought it was the double of King Atli."
He answered, "Full oft do we slaughter beasts freely, and smite
down great neat for our cheer, and the dream of the erne has but
to do with oxen; yea, Atli is heart-whole toward us."
And therewithal they cease this talk.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
Of the Journey of the Giukings to King Atli.
Now tells the tale of Gunnar, that in the same wise it fared with
him; for when they awoke, Glaumvor his wife told him many dreams
which seemed to her like to betoken guile coming; but Gunnar
areded them all in other wise.
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