but go I must, as I have already made up my mind to, in spite of this dream.”  Kjartan got ready to go on the fifth day in Easter week; and at the advice of Aud, so did Thorkell Whelp and Knut his brother.  They rode on the way with Kjartan a band of twelve together.  Kjartan came to Whitedale and fetched the homespun for Thorhalla Chatterbox as he had said he would. [Sidenote:  Gudrun wakes her brothers] After that he rode south through Swinedale.  It is told how at Laugar in Saelingsdale Gudrun was early afoot directly after sunrise.  She went to where her brothers were sleeping.  She roused Ospak and he woke up at once, and then too the other brothers.  And when Ospak saw that there was his sister, he asked her what she wanted that she was up so early.  Gudrun said she wanted to know what they would be doing that day.  Ospak said he would keep at rest, “for there is little work to do.”  Gudrun said, “You would have the right sort of temper if you were the daughters of some peasant, letting neither good nor bad be done by you.  Why, after all the disgrace and shame that Kjartan has done to you, you none the less lie quietly sleeping, though he rides past this place with but one other man.  Such men indeed are richly endowed with the memory of swine.  I think it is past hoping that you will ever have courage enough to go and seek out Kjartan in his home, if you dare not meet him now that he rides with but one other man or two; but here you sit at home and bear yourselves as if you were hopeful men; yea, in sooth there are too many of you.”  Ospak said she did not mince matters and it was hard to gainsay her, and he sprang up forthwith and dressed, as did also each of the brothers one after the other.  Then they got ready to lay an ambush for Kjartan.  Then Gudrun called on Bolli to bestir him with them. [Sidenote:  The ambush laid for Kjartan] Bolli said it behoved him not for the sake of his kinship with Kjartan, set forth how lovingly Olaf had brought him up.  Gudrun answered, “Therein you speak the truth, but you will not have the good luck always to do what pleases all men, and if you cut yourself out of this journey, our married life must be at an end.”  And through Gudrun’s harping on the matter Bolli’s mind swelled at all the enmity and guilts that lay at the door of Kjartan, and speedily he donned his weapons, and they grew a band of nine together.  There were the five sons of Osvif—­Ospak, Helgi, Vandrad, Torrad, and Thorolf.  Bolli was the sixth and Gudlaug, the son of Osvif’s sister, the hopefullest of men, the seventh.  There were also Odd and Stein, sons of Thorhalla Chatterbox.  They rode to Swinedale and took up their stand beside the gill which is called Goat-gill.[6] They bound up their horses and sat down.  Bolli was silent all day, and lay up on the top of the gill bank. [Sidenote:  Thorkell of Goat-peaks] Now when Kjartan and his followers were come south past Narrowsound, where the dale begins to widen out, Kjartan said that Thorkell and the others had better