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.