She answered that she did not expect to have
any more illnesses. Then she said: "I consider you the wisest person
in the homestead here, and so I shall tell you what arrangements I
wish to make about the property that I leave behind me, and about
myself, for things will go as I tell you, though you think there is
nothing very remarkable about me. It will do you little good to
depart from my instructions, for this affair has so begun that it will
not pass smoothly off, unless strong measures are taken in dealing
with it."

Thorodd answered: "There seems to me great likelihood that your
forebodings will come true; and therefore," said he, "I shall promise
to you not to depart from your instructions".

"These are my arrangements," said Thorgunna, "that I will have myself
taken to Skalholt if I die of this sickness, for my mind forbodes me
that that place will some time or other be the most glorious spot in
this land. I know also that by now there are priests there to sing
the funeral service over me. So I ask you to have me carried thither,
and for that you shall take so much of my property that you suffer no
loss in the matter. Of my other effects, Thurid shall have the
scarlet cloak that I own, and I give it her so that she may readily
consent to my disposing of all the rest as I please. I have a gold
ring, and it shall go to the church with me; but as for my bed and
bed-hangings, I will have them burned with fire, because they will be
of service to no one. I do not say this because I grudge that any one
should possess these treasures, if I knew that they would be of use to
them; rather am I so earnest in the matter, because I should be sorry
for folk to fall into such trouble for me, as I know will be the case
if my words are not heeded."

Thorodd promised to do as she asked him, and after this Thorgunna's
sickness increased, so that she lay but few days before she died. The
body was first taken to the church, and Thorodd had a coffin made for
it. On the following day Thorodd had all the bed-clothes carried out
into the open air, and made a pile of wood beside them. Then Thurid
the housewife came up, and asked what he was going to do with the bed-
clothes. He answered that he was to burn them with fire, as Thorgunna
had directed him. "I will not have such treasures burned," said
Thurid. Thorodd answered: "She declared strongly that it would not
do to depart from what she said". "That was mere jealous