It will soon be burned, | so thou sawest the bed-cover.”

Kostbera spake:

[16]. “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.”

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Hogni spake:

[17]. “Now a storm is brewing, | and wild it grows swiftly,

A dream of an ice-bear | means a gale from the east.”