The Hervarar Saga ok Heiðreks on Blind

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• attestation: Blind (also called Bavis) suspected the woman at the mill was Hromund in disguise

  "Blind said that the peasant's wife had made things look different from what they were, and he had his suspicions that it must have been Hromund who was turning the mill, dressed as a woman."

• attestation: Blind dreamed of a wolf from the east biting and wounding the King

  "I dreamed that a wolf came running from the east, and bit you and wounded you, O King."

• attestation: Blind dreamed of hawks on a house and the King's falcon stripped bare

  "Blind said that he dreamed he saw many hawks perched on a house--"And there I espied your falcon, Sire. He was all bare an"

• attestation: Blind told his dream to King Hadding in the following winter

  "In the following winter Blind saw many things in a dream, and on one occasion he told his dream to the King"

• attestation: Blind cursed the peasant woman when they failed to find Hromund

  "They cursed her and went back home to the King, leaving matters as they stood."

• attestation: Blind had told them earlier that Hromund was hidden under the cauldron

  "Blind told her that she was a crafty one and had hidden Hromund under her cauldron."

• attestation: Blind dreamed an iron ring was fixed round his neck, which the King interpreted as his own hanging

  ""I dreamed that an iron ring was fixed round my neck."

The King said: "The meaning of this dream is that you are going to be hanged; and that will be the end of both of us.""

• attestation: Blind (Bavis) was bound and hanged, fulfilling his dream

  "The man Blind, who was also called Bavis, was bound and then hanged; and so his dream was fulfilled."