She said that she did not know, "but it seems to me most likely that
it is an evil omen for some person who is present here". In the
evening Thorgunna went home and took off her clothes, which had been
stained with the blood; then she lay down in her bed and breathed
heavily, and it was found that she was taken with sickness. The
shower had not fallen anywhere else than at Froda.
All that evening Thorgunna would taste no food. In the morning
Thorodd came to her and asked about her sickness, and what end she
thought it would have. She answered that she did not expect to have
any more illnesses. Then she said: "I consider you the wisest person
in the homestead here, and so I shall tell you what arrangements I
wish to make about the property that I leave behind me, and about
myself, for things will go as I tell you, though you think there is
nothing very remarkable about me. It will do you little good to
depart from my instructions, for this affair has so begun that it will
not pass smoothly off, unless strong measures are taken in dealing
with it."
Thorodd answered: "There seems to me great likelihood that your
forebodings will come true; and therefore," said he, "I shall promise
to you not to depart from your instructions".
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