it was.  He had on it an out-dairy.  Osvif had at all times a great many servants, and his way of living was most noble.  West in Saurby is a place called Hol, there lived three kinsmen-in-law—­Thorkell the Whelp and Knut, who were brothers, they were very well-born men, and their brother-in-law, who shared their household with them, who was named Thord.  He was, after his mother, called Ingun’s-son.  The father of Thord was Glum Gierison.  Thord was a handsome and valiant man, well knit, and a great man of law-suits.  Thord had for wife the sister of Thorkell and Knut, who was called Aud, neither a goodly nor a bucksome woman.  Thord loved her little, as he had chiefly married her for her money, for there a great wealth was stored together, and the household flourished from the time that Thord came to have hand in it with them.

CHAP.  XXXIII

Of Gest Oddleifson and Gudrun’s Dreams

Gest Oddleifson lived west at Bardastrand, at Hagi.  He was a great chieftain and a sage; was fore-seeing in many things and in good friendship with all the great men, and many came to him for counsel.  He rode every summer to the Thing, and always would put up at Hol.  One time it so happened once more that Gest rode to the Thing and was a guest at Hol. [Sidenote:  Meeting of Gudrun and Gest] He got ready to leave early in the morning, for the journey was a long one and he meant to get to Thickshaw in the evening to Armod, his brother-in-law’s, who had for wife Thorunn, a sister of Gest’s.  Their sons were Ornolf and Haldor.  Gest rode all that day from Saurby and came to the Saelingsdale spring, and tarried there for a while.  Gudrun came to the spring and greeted her relative, Gest, warmly.  Gest gave her a good welcome, and they began to talk together, both being wise and of ready speech. [Sidenote:  Gudrun’s dreams] And as the day was wearing on, Gudrun said, “I wish, cousin, you would ride home with us with all your followers, for it is the wish of my father, though he gave me the honour of bearing the message, and told me to say that he would wish you to come and stay with us every time you rode to or from the west.”  Gest received the message well, and thought it a very manly offer, but said he must ride on now as he had purposed.  Gudrun said, “I have dreamt many dreams this winter; but four of the dreams do trouble my mind much, and no man has been able to explain them as I like, and yet I ask not for any favourable interpretation of them.”  Gest said, “Tell me your dreams, it may be that I can make something of them.”  Gudrun said, “I thought I stood out of doors by a certain brook, and I had a crooked coif on my head, and I thought it misfitted me, and I wished to alter the coif, and many people told me I should not do so, but I did not listen to them, and I tore the hood from my head, and cast it into the brook, and that was the end of that dream.”  Then Gudrun said again, “This is the next dream.