XII
NOW JOKUL got himself ready for the journey together with his thirty men, and besides them Gautan and Ogautan.
The same morning Thorstein awoke in his shed and said: Are you awake, Thorer?
Answered he: I am, but I have been sleeping until now.
Said Thorstein: It is my will that we get ourselves ready for leaving the shed, for I know that Jokul will come here today together with many men.
Answered Thorer: I do not think so, and I am unwilling to go at all; or have you any sign of this?
I dreamt, said Thorstein, that twenty-two wolves were running hither, and besides them there were seven bears, and the eighth one, a red-cheeked bear, large and grim-looking. And besides these there were two she-foxes leading the party; the latter were very ugly-looking, and seemed to me the most di
