w this summer, before these tidings were brought out hither to
Iceland, Illugi the Black, being at home at Gilsbank, dreamed a dream:
he thought that Gunnlaug came to him in his sleep, all bloody, and he
sang in the dream this stave before him; and Illugi remembered the song
when he woke, and sang it before others:--

"Knew I of the hewing
Of Raven's hilt-finned steel-fish
Byrny-shearing--sword-edge
Sharp clave leg of Raven.--
Of warm wounds drank the eagle,
When the war-rod slender,
Cleaver of the corpses,
Clave the head of Gunnlaug."

This portent befel south at Mossfell, the self-same night, that Onund
dreamed how Raven came to him, covered all over with blood, and sang:--

"Red is the sword, but I now
Am undone by Sword-Odin.
'Gainst shields beyond the sea-flood
The ruin of shields was wielded.
Methinks the blood-fowl blood-stained
In blood der men's heads stood there,
The wound-erne yet wound-eager
Trod over wounded bodies?"

Now the second summer after this, Illugi the Black spoke at the Althing
from the Hill of Laws, and said:--

"Wherewith wilt thou make atonement to me for my son, whom Raven, thy
son, beguiled in his troth?"

Onund answers, "Be it far from me to atone for him, so sorely as their
meeting hath wounded me. Yet will I not ask atonement of thee for my
son."

"Then shall my wrath come home to some of thy kin," says Illugi. And
withal after the Thing was Illugi at most times very sad.

Tells the tale how this autumn Illugi rode from Gilsbank with thirty
men, and came to Mossfell early in the morning. Then Onund got into the
church with his sons, and took sanctuary; but Illugi caught two of his
kin, one called Biorn and the other Thorgrim, and had Biorn slain, but
the feet smitten from Thorgrim. And thereafter Illugi rode home, and
there was no righting of this for Onund.

Hermund, Illugi's son, had little joy after the death of Gunnlaug his
brother, and deemed he was none the more avenged even though this had
been wrought.

Now there was a man called Raven, brother's son to Onund of Mossfell;
he was a great sea-farer, and had a ship that lay up in Ramfirth: and in
the spring Hermund Illugison rode from home alone north over Holt-beacon
Heath, even to Ramfirth, and out as far as Board-ere to the ship of
the chapmen. The chapmen