I have had a bad dream." Then his eyes fell on the bear, and he added: "Oh, I remember now; it was no dream.

Where is Olaf ?" "Supping with Odin," answered Ragnar and pointed to me.
Steinar rose to his feet, staggered to where I lay, and stared at me stretched there as white as the snow, with a smile upon my face and in my hand a spray of some evergreen bush which I had grasped as I fell.
"Did he die to save me ?" asked Steinar.
"Aye," answered Ragnar, "and never did man walk that bridge in better fashion.

You were right.

Would that I had not mocked him." "Would that I had died and not he," said Steinar with a sob.

"It is borne in upon my heart that it were better I had died." "Then that may well be, for the heart does not lie at such a time.