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No welcoming friendly this time shall ye find;
For I dreamed now, Hogni, and nought will I hide,
Full evil thy faring, if rightly I fear.
For I dreamed now, Hogni, and nought will I hide,
Full evil thy faring, if rightly I fear.
15.[1] "Thy bed-covering saw I in the flames burning,
And the fire burst high through the walls of my home."
Hogni spake:
"Yon garment of linen lies little of worth,
It will soon be burned, so thou sawest the bed-cover."
And the fire burst high through the walls of my home."
Hogni spake:
"Yon garment of linen lies little of worth,
It will soon be burned, so thou sawest the bed-cover."
Kostbera spake:
16.[2] "A bear saw I enter, the pillars he broke,
And he brandished his claws so that craven we were;
With his mouth seized he many, and nought was our might,
And loud was the tumult, not little it was."
16.[2] "A bear saw I enter, the pillars he broke,
And he brandished his claws so that craven we were;
With his mouth seized he many, and nought was our might,
And loud was the tumult, not little it was."
- ↑ Saw I: the manuscript here, as also in stanzas 16, 18, 21, 22, and 24, has "methought," which involves a metrical error. Some editors regard lines 3-4 as the remains of a four-line stanza. Regarding Kostbera's warning dreams, and Hogni's matter-of-fact interpretations of them, cf. Guthrunarkvitha II, 39-44.
- ↑ The meaning of the first half of line 3 in the original is obscure.
making stanza 15 (then consisting of lines 3-4 of stanza 14 and lines 1-2 of stanza 15) the account of Kostbera's first dream. The manuscript marks line 3 as beginning a new stanza. In any case, the lost lines cannot materially have altered the meaning.
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