Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series B - 01.10.1960, Qupperneq 28

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then be older than 1663; the author Eyjólfur Jónsson
is, as far as I know, not identified.
The text from 585c on pp. 23—78 is a prose
rendering of these rímur. This is evident even from
a comparison of the relevant stanzas with the first
lines of the prose. Some words which have been taken
over are printed in italics:
Eigi vil eg angurs pýn
ydur mædi (y) husum mýn
klædstu helldur kesiu grier
kinna vil eg nockud þier.
Klædast nadi kinia fliott
kesiu tijr var ecki rott
vestre tekur hans j hond
hier munu biriast radinn vond.
Herbergi j hann nu eitt
hier næst leider furdu breitt
liomadi þar a linna bol
lykast þotti birti af söl.
Quite decisive are also passages wbere the rhyme-
words of the rímur recur in the prose:
Sudre skeller sig og hloo
sijdann fra eg mæler þo
asian þijn er ædi mio
augun saman og naser drö.
Cf. in the prose 7412 -14: hlær, mioleitur, dregnar.
Ad fruennar geingur huýlu hatt
hefur sueipu tetur gratt
leggur ýfer gullas gatt
giorer þa draga vr henne matt.
Cf. in the prose 7514 ~16: gratt, mátt.