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The Laxdæla Saga on Gest Oddleifson

Laxdaela > Saga > Chap. Xxxiii

attestation: Gest Oddleifson interpreted Gudrun's dreams

"Of Gest Oddleifson and Gudrun's Dreams"
attestation: Gest Oddleifson lived at Hagi on Bardastrand and was a great chieftain and prophetic sage

"Gest Oddleifson lived west at Bardastrand, at Hagi. He was a great chieftain and a sage; was fore-seeing in many things"
attestation: Gest rode to the Thing every summer and customarily stayed at Hol

"He rode every summer to the Thing, and always would put up at Hol."
attestation: Gest interpreted the four dreams as predicting Gudrun would have four husbands

"Of Gest Oddleifson and Gudrun's Dreams"
attestation: Many great men sought Gest's counsel due to his wisdom and foresight

"in good friendship with all the great men, and many came to him for counsel."

attestation: Gest traveled to the Thing that summer and stayed at Hol in Saurby as was his custom

"That summer Gest went to the Thing and went in a ship to Saurby as he was wont. He stayed as guest at Hol in Saurby."

attestation: Gest Oddleifson gave Hallstein an ultimatum to banish the wizards or face their execution

"Gest Oddleifson went to see Hallstein, and gave him choice of two things, either that he should send away these wizards or he said that he would kill them"

attestation: Gest Oddleifson also fell ill that same winter and called his son Thord the Low to him

"That same winter Gest Oddliefson fell ill, and as the sickness grew heavy on him, he called to him Thord the Low, his son"
attestation: Gest expressed foreboding about the future, saying his mind foresaw trouble

"My mind forebo"