"You are
asleep, though it comes to the same thing as if you were awake. You
have had my son slain, and let him come to my hand in a shapeless
plight, and for this deed you shall see your son, blood-stained all
over through my doing, and him I shall choose thereto whom I know you
would like to lose least of all." After that she disappeared, and Olaf
woke up and still thought he saw the features of the woman. Olaf took
the dream very much to heart, and told it to his friends, but no one
could read it to his liking. He thought those spoke best about this
matter who said that what had appeared to him was only a dream or
fancy.

CHAP. XXXII

Of Osvif Helgeson

[Sidenote: Osvif and his family] Osvif was the name of a man. He was
the son of Helgi, who was the son of Ottar, the son of Bjorn the
Eastman, who was the son of Ketill Flatnose, the son of Bjorn Buna.
The mother of Osvif was named Nidbiorg. Her mother was Kadlin, the
daughter of Ganging-Hrolf, the son of Ox-Thorir, who was a most
renowned "Hersir" (war-lord) east in Wick. Why he was so called, was
that he owned three islands with eighty oxen on each. He gave one
island and its oxen to Hakon the King, and his gift was much talked
about. Osvif was a great sage. He lived at Laugar in Salingsdale. The
homestead of Laugar stands on the northern side of Salingsdale-river,
over against Tongue. The name of his wife was Thordis, daughter of
Thjodolf the Low. Ospak was the name of one of their sons. [Sidenote:
Osvif's household] Another was named Helgi, and a third Vandrad, and a
fourth Jorrad, and a fifth Thorolf. They were all doughty men for
fighting. Gudrun was the name of their daughter. She was the goodliest
of women who grew up in Iceland, both as to looks and wits. Gudrun was
such a woman of state that at that time whatever other women wore in
the way of finery of dress was looked upon as children's gewgaws
beside hers. She was the most cunning and the fairest spoken of all
women, and an open-handed woman withal. There was a woman living with
Osvif who was named Thorhalla, and was called the Chatterer. She was
some sort of relation to Osvif. She had two sons, one named Odd and
the other Stein. They were muscular men, and in a great measure the
hardest toilers for Osvif's household. They were talkative like their
mother, but ill liked by people; yet were upheld greatly by the sons
of Osvif. At Tongue there lived a man named Thorarin, son of Thorir
Saeling (