Viking Tales of the North
The Saga of Thorstein Viking's Son
Chapter 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 disgusting
of all. All the wolves attacked us, and at last they seemed to tear to
pieces all my brother excepting you alone and yet you fell. Many of the
bears we slew, and the wolves I killed, and the smaller one of the foxes,
but then I fell. Asked Thorer” What do you think this dream means” Made
answer Thorstein” I think that the large red-cheeked bear must be the
fylgja (follower, guardian-spirit) of Jokul, and the other bears the fylgias
of his brothers; but the wolves undoubtedly were, to my mind, as many
as the men who came with them; for, certainly they are wolfishly-minded
toward us. But besides them there were two she-foxes, and I do not know
any men to whom such fylgias belong; I therefore suppose that some persons
hated by almost everybody have lately come to Jokul, and thus these fylgias
may belong to them. Now, I have told you this my thought about the matter,
and we will have to act in the matter pointed out to me in my sleep, and
I would that we might avoid all trouble. Says Thorer: I think your dream
has been nothing but a scare-crow and idle forebodings, still it would
not be uninteresting to try our mutual strength. Quoth Thorstein: I do
not think so; it seems to me that an unequal meeting is intended, and
I should like that we might get ready to go away from here. Thorer said
he would not go away, and it had to be as he would have it. Thorstein
arose and took his weapons, and all his brothers did likewise, but Thorer
was very slow about it. At the very time when they had gotten themselves
ready, Jokul came up with his men. The shed had two doors, one of which
Thorstein guarded together with three of his brothers, the other was guarded
by Thorer together with four men. A sharp attack then began; the brothers
warded themselves bravely, but Jokul attacked the door warded by Thorer
so strongly that three of his brothers fell, but one of them was driven
out of the door to the spot where Thorstein stood. Thorer still guarded
the door for a while, being by no means willing to yield. Then he turned
out of the door and found his way among the enemies down upon the ice.
They surrounded him, but he defended himself very bravely. Thorstein seeing
this, ran out of the shed together with those of his brothers who were
yet alive, went down onto the ice where Thorer was standing, and now a
fierce combat took place. Thorstein and Thorer dealt many heavy blows,
and at last all the brothers had fallen excepting Thorstein and Thorer;
and all the sons of Njorfe had also fallen save Jokul and Grim. Then Thorstein
became very weary, so that he was hardly able to stand. He saw that he
would fall; and of the opposite party all had fallen but Gautan and Ogautan.
Now Thorer was both weary and wounded, and the night was already growing
very dark. Just then Thorstein turned against Gautan and stabbed him through
his body with Angervadil, so that he fell to the ground among the other
dead bodies. Then three men, Jokul, Grim, and Ogautan, arose and searched
for Thorstein among the slain, and they thought they had found him, but
the person they found was Jokul’s brother, Finn, for they were so much
like each other that it was impossible to know them apart. Grim said Thorstein
was dead. Said Ogautan, That shall be put beyond a doubt, and he cut his
head off, but of course it did not bleed, for he was already dead. After
this they went home. King Njorfe asked them how the meeting had turned
out, and learning this, he did not approve it at all, saying that now
had lost much more than his son Olaf, his seven sons and many other men
having died. Now Jokul kept quiet.
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