I thought I stood near some water, and I thought there was a silver ring on my arm.  I thought it was my own, and that it fitted me exceeding well.  I thought it was a most precious thing, and long I wished to keep it.  But when I was least aware of it, the ring slipped off my arm and into the water, and nothing more did I see of it afterwards.  I felt this loss much more than it was likely I should ever feel the loss of a mere keepsake.  Then I awoke.”  Gest answered this alone:  “No lesser a dream is that one.”  Gudrun still spoke:  “This is the third dream, I thought I had a gold ring on my hand, which I thought belonged to me, and I thought my loss was now made good again.  And the thought entered my mind that I would keep this ring longer than the first; but it did not seem to me that this keepsake suited me better than the former at anything like the rate that gold is more precious than silver.  Then I thought I fell, and tried to steady myself with my hand, but then the gold ring struck on a certain stone and broke in two, and the two pieces bled.  What I had to bear after this felt more like grief than regret for a loss.  And it struck me now that there must have been some flaw in the ring, and when I looked at the pieces I thought I saw sundry more flaws in them; yet I had a feeling that if I had taken better care of it, it might still have been whole; and this dream was no longer.”  Gest said, “The dreams are not waning.”  Then said Gudrun, “This is my fourth dream.  I thought I had a helm of gold upon my head, set with many precious stones.  And I thought this precious thing belonged to me, but what I chiefly found fault with was that it was rather too heavy, and I could scarcely bear it, so that I carried my head on one side; yet I did not blame the helm for this, nor had I any mind to part with it.  Yet the helm tumbled from my head out into Hvammfirth, and after that I awoke.  Now I have told you all my dreams.” [Sidenote:  Gest’s reading of the dreams] Gest answered, “I clearly see what these dreams betoken; but you will find my unravelling savouring much of sameness, for I must read them all nearly in the same way.  You will have four husbands, and it misdoubts me when you are married to the first it will be no love match.  Inasmuch as you thought you had a great coif on your head and thought it ill-fitting, that shows you will love him but little.  And whereas you took it off your head and cast it into the water, that shows that you will leave him.  For that, men say, is ‘cast on to the sea,’ when a man loses what is his own, and gets nothing in return for it.”  And still Gest spake:  “Your second dream was that you thought you had a silver ring on your arm, and that shows you will marry a nobleman whom you will love much, but enjoy him for but a short time, and I should not wonder if you lose him by drowning.  That is all I have to tell of that dream.  And in the third dream you thought you had a gold ring on your hand; that shows you will have a third husband;