h at the Thing when that was settled last summer."

Gunnlaug answered naught thereto.

Now the foot was swathed, and put into joint again, and it swelled
mightily; but he and Hallfred ride twelve in company till they come to
Gilsbank, in Burg-firth, the very Saturday night when folk sat at the
wedding at Burg. Illugi was fain of his son Gunnlaug and his fellows;
but Gunnlaug said he would ride then and there down to Burg. Illugi said
it was not wise to do so, and to all but Gunnlaug that seemed good. But
Gunnlaug was then unfit to walk, because of his foot, though he would
not let that be seen. Therefore there was no faring to Burg.

On the morrow Hallfred rode to Hreda-water, in North-water dale, where
Galti, his brother and a brisk man, managed their matters.

CHAPTER XIII. Of the Winter-Wedding at Skaney, and how Gunnlaug
gave the Kings Cloak to Helga.

Tells the tale of Raven, that he sat at his weddings-feast at Burg, and
it was the talk of most men that the bride was but drooping; for true is
the saw that saith, "Long we remember what youth gained us," and even so
it was with her now.

But this new thing befell at the feast, that Hungerd, the daughter
of Thorod and Jofrid, was wooed by a man named Sverting, the son of
Hafr-Biorn, the son of Mold-Gnup, and the wedding was to come off that
winter after Yule, at Skaney, where dwelt Thorkel, a kinsman of Hungerd,
and son of Torn Valbrandsson; and the mother of Torn was Thorodda, the
sister of Odd of the Tongue.

Now Raven went home to Mossfell with Helga his wife. When they had been
there a little while, one morning early before they rose up, Helga was
awake, but Raven slept, and fared ill in his sleep. And when he woke
Helga asked him what he had dreamt. Then Raven sang:--

"In thine arms, so dreamed I,
Hewn was I, gold island!
Bride, in blood I bled there,
Bed of thine was reddened.
Never more then mightst thou,
Mead-bowl'spourer speedy,
Bind my gashes bloody--
Lind-leek-bough thou likst it."

Helga spake: "Never shall I weep therefor," quoth she; "ye have evilly
beguiled me, and Gunnlaug has surely come out." And therewith she wept
much.

But, a little after, Gunnlaug's coming was bruited about, and Helga
became so hard with Raven, that he could not keep her at home at
Mossfell; so that back they had to go to Burg, and Raven got small share
of her company.

Now me