download - Sage's Lore Library

ISO EELIGION of the NOETHMElJ.
mimdsson, of Hof, in Vatnsdal, was invited as a
guest of Groa, a magic-skilled woman who dwelt in
his neighborhood, he dreamed for three successive
nights before the festival, " that the woman who
had been the attendant of him and- his family
showed herself unto him and forbade him to go
thither. He obeyed, and staid at home with his
friends. But on the very day that the festival was
to have been,. Groa's house was buried beneath a
mountain slide,, which was called forth by her sor-
cery.*
'
: .
'
The renowned and mighty Icelander, Yiga-Glum,
dreamed one night, that he stood on hia estate
Thvera, and saw a woman coming toward him, who
was so large that her shpulders reached the moun-
tain-tops upon both sides of the valley. He inter-
preted this dream to signify that his uncle, the
Norwegian hersir Yigfus, was now dead,, and the
woman was his Good Fortunp (hamingja), which
was higher than the mountains, and which now
took up its abode with Glum.-f
When Hallfred VandrseSaskald lay deathly sick
in his ship, a woman was seen to walk along with
it. She was of a gtsodly aspect and was clad in
armor; she walked over the waves as though it
had been upon firm land. Hallfred h)oked upon
her and saw that it was his Fylgjarkona (Guardian
Spirit), but as he had embraced Christianity, he
was anxious she should not accompany him in the
realms of death, and he said to her, " I now declare
* Vatnsd. S., 86.
t Viga-ei; S., 9.
"