"This was one of them," said she; "methought a bloody sword was
borne into the hall here, wherewith thou wert thrust through, and
at either end of that wolves howled."
The king answered, "Our dogs shall bite me belike; blood-stained
weapons oft betoken dogs' snappings."
She said, "Yet again I dreamed -- that women came in, heavy and
drooping, and chose thee for their mate; may-happen these would
be thy fateful women."
He answered, "Hard to arede is this, and none may set aside the
fated measure of his days, nor is it unlike that my time is
short." (1)
So in the morning they arose, and were minded for the journey,
but some letted them herein.
Then cried Gunnar to the man who is called Fjornir --
"Arise, and give us to drink goodly wine from great tuns, because
may happen this shall be very last of all our feasts; belike if
we die the old wolf shall come by the gold, and that bear shall
nowise spare the bite of his war-tusks."
Then all the folk of his household brought them on their way
weeping.
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