10.  To their bed they went, she and Hogni.  The gentle lady dreamed, and concealed it not, to the prince wisely said it as soon as she awoke.

11.  “From home thou art going, Hogni! give ear to counsel; few are fully prudent:  go another time.

12.  I have the runes interpreted, which thy sister graved:  that fair dame has not this time invited thee.  At one thing I wonder most, I cannot even conceive, why so wise a woman so confusedly should grave; for it is so set down as if it intimated death to you both, if you should straightway come.  Either she has left out a letter, or others are the cause."[110]

13.  “They are,” said Hogni, “all suspicious; I have no knowledge of them, nor will I into it inquire, unless we have to make requital.  The king will gift us with gleed-red gold.  I never fear, though we may hear of terror.”

14.  “Tottering ye will go, if thitherward ye tend.  No kind entertainment there will ye at this time find.  Hogni!  I have dreamed, I will not conceal it:  in an evil hour ye will go, or so at least I fear.

15.  “Methought thy coverlet was with fire consumed; that the towering flame rushed through my dwelling.”

Hogni.

16.  “Here lie linen cloths, which thou hadst little noticed:  these will quickly burn where thou the coverlet sawest.”

Kostbera.

17.  “Methought a bear came in, and broke down the columns; and so his talons shook, that we were terror-stricken; by his mouth held many of us, so that we were helpless:  there, too, was a din far from little.”

Hogni.

18.  “A tempest there will be furious and sudden:  the white bear thou sawest will be a storm from the east.”

Kostbera.

19.  “Methought an eagle flew herein, all through the house:  that will largely concern us.  He sprinkled all with blood:  from his threats I thought it to be the ’ham’[111] of Atli.”

Hogni.

20.  “We often slaughter largely, and then red we see:  often are oxen meant, when we of eagles dream.  Sound is the heart of Atli, dream thou as thou mayest.”  With this they ended:  all speeches have an end.

21.  The high-born awoke, there the like befell:  Glaumvor had perceived that her dreams were ill-boding, adverse to Gunnar’s going to and fro.

22.  “Methought a gallows was for thee erected,[112] thou wentest to be hanged, that serpents ate thee, that I inter’d thee living, that the Powers’ dissolution came—­Divine thou what that portends.

23.  “Methought a bloody glave from thy sark was drawn—­ill ’tis such a dream to a consort to recount—­methought a lance was thrust through thy middle:  wolves howled on every side.”

Gunnar.

24.  “Where dogs run they are wont to bark:  oft bodes the bay of dogs the flight of javelins.”

Glaumvor.

25.  “Methought a river ran herein, through the whole house, that it roared violently, rushed o’er the benches, brake the feet of you brothers twain; nothing the water spared:  something will that portend!