Dost

Gesta Danorum (Books I-IX)

• attestation: Dost thou assure me that what I hold shall be mine as an irrevocable gift?"

The king. (The Danish History, > Book Five.)

"Dost thou assure me that what I hold shall be mine as an irrevocable gift?"

The king, thinking that he was only asking for the cup, declared it was a gift."

• relationship: Then said Germ: "Dost thou declare to me the death of Kanute?" (2) And Thyra said: "That is proclaimed by thy presage, not by mine." By this answer she made out her lord a dead man and herself a wi... (The Danish History, > Book Nine.)

  "Then said Germ: "Dost thou declare to me the death of Kanute?" (2) And Thyra said: "That is proclaimed by thy presage, not by mine." By this answer she made out her lord a dead man and herself a widow, and had to lament her husband as soon as her son."

Njál's Saga

• relationship: Dost traveled, passing through territory associated with Then Hrut (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 22. Njal'S Advice)

  "He will ask, `Dost thou know how matters fared between me and him?'

"I know all about it,' thou must reply, he took thy wife from thee, and thou hadst not a word to say.'

"Then Hrut will ask, `Dost thou not think it was some disgrace to him when he could not get back his goods, though he set the suit on foot?'

"`I can answer thee that well enough,' thou must say."

• attestation: Now I will try what thy wit is worth." "Dost thou think now," answered Bjorn, "that much lies on our being as wise as ever we can?" "Ay," said Kari, "I think so surely." "Then our counsel is soon t... (The Story Of Burnt Njal > 1. Of Fiddle Mord > 150. More Of Kari And Bjorn)

  "Now I will try what thy wit is worth."

"Dost thou think now," answered Bjorn, "that much lies on our being as wise as ever we can?"

"Ay," said Kari, "I think so surely."

"Then our counsel is soon taken," says Bjorn. "We will cheat them all as though they were giants; and now we will make as though we were riding north on the fell, but as soon as ever we are out of sight behind the brae, we will turn down along Skaptarwater, and hide us there where we think handiest, so long as the hue and cry is hottest, if they ride after us."

"So will we do," said Kari; "and this I had meant to do all along."

"And so you may put it to the proof," said Bjorn, "that I am no more of an every-day body in wit than I am in bravery."

Now Kari and his companion rode as they had purposed down along Skaptarwater, till they came where a branch of the stream ran away to the south-east; then they turned down along the middle branch, and did not draw bridle till they came into Middleland, and on that moor which is called Kringlemire; it has a stream of lava all around it."