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No welcoming friendly  this time shall ye find;For I dreamed now, Hogni,  and nought will I hide,Full evil thy faring,  if rightly I fear.
15.[1] "Thy bed-covering saw I  in the flames burning,And the fire burst high  through the walls of my home."  Hogni spake:"Yon garment of linen  lies little of worth,It will soon be burned,  so thou sawest the bed-cover."
  Kostbera spake:16.[2] "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."

    making stanza 15 (then consisting of lines 3-4 of stanza 14 and lines 1-2 of stanza 15) the account of Kostbera's first dream. The manuscript marks line 3 as beginning a new stanza. In any case, the lost lines cannot materially have altered the meaning.

  1. ↑ Saw I: the manuscript here, as also in stanzas 16, 18, 21, 22, and 24, has "methought," which involves a metrical error. Some editors regard lines 3-4 as the remains of a four-line stanza. Regarding Kostbera's warning dreams, and Hogni's matter-of-fact interpretations of them, cf. Guthrunarkvitha II, 39-44.
  2. ↑ The meaning of the first half of line 3 in the original is obscure.

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