Thing-people, while Olaf was not yet arrived, but only advancing,
hardly got to Breeden on the other side of the hill: "A man has come
to Loar who is called Olaf," said Gudbrand, "and will force upon us
another faith than we had before, and will break in pieces all our
Gods. He says he has a much greater and more powerful God; and it is
wonderful that the earth does not burst asunder under him, or that our
God lets him go about unpunished when he dares to talk such things. I
know this for certain, that if we carry Thor, who has always stood by
us, out of our Temple that is standing upon this farm, Olaf's God will
melt away, and he and his men be made nothing as soon as Thor looks
upon them." Whereupon the Bonders all shouted as one man, "Yea!"

Which tremendous message they even forwarded to Olaf, by Gudbrand's
younger son at the head of 700 armed men; but did not terrify Olaf
with it, who, on the contrary, drew up his troops, rode himself at the
head of them, and began a speech to the Bonders, in which he invited
them to adopt Christianity, as the one true faith for mortals.

Far from consenting to this, the Bonders raised a general shout,
smiting at the same time their shields with their weapons; but Olaf's
men advancing on them swiftly, and flinging spears, they turned and
ran, leaving Gudbrand's son behind, a prisoner, to whom Olaf gave his
life: "Go home now to thy father, and tell him I mean to be with him
soon."

The son goes accordingly, and advises his father not to face Olaf; but
Gudbrand angrily replies: "Ha, coward! I see thou, too, art taken by
the folly that man is going about with;" and is resolved to fight.
That night, however, Gudbrand has a most remarkable Dream, or Vision:
a Man surrounded by light, bringing great terror with him, who warns