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290 RELIGION OF THE NOKTHMEN.
occupation. On her feet she wore shaggy calfskin
shoes with long, heavy thongs, on the ends of which
were large brass buttons (14t4ns knappar). She had
catskin gloves upon her hands, white within and
shaggy. When she entered, every one felt it a duty
to greet her with reverence; she returned their
salutations according to what sh6 thought of each
one individually. Thorkel took the wise woman
(visinda konunni) by the hand and conducted her to
the seat prepared for her. He requested her to
cast her eyes over (renna augum yfir) his herds and
property and house. She said but little concerning
all this. In the evening the tables were set, and
now it shall be told what dishes were made ready
for the Spae-wife. Tliere was groats, made of goats'
milk (ki8a mjolk) ; but her food was prepared from-
the hearts of every kind of animal that there was in
the neighborhood. She had a brass spoon, and a
knife of copper with a shaft of walrus-tooth and a
double sheath (knif tannskeptan tvlh61ka5an af
eiri) f the point of it was broken off. When the
tables were cleared, Thorkel Bondi goes up to Thor-
bjorg and asks what she thinks of the house and the
appearance of the people, and also how soon she
will have a revelation concerning the things he has
asked her about and which the people are all
anxious to know. She answers that she cannot
make this known before morning, after she has
slept there over night. Early in the morning all
the arrangements were made for her which belong
to the incantations of SeiSr. She then asked them
to furnish her .with women who knew the paagic