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lydr med fogrum kæideik ok uinattv. vinda þeir nu
sin segl ok sigla fagurt byrleidi nockura daga. herra
B(lauus) talar þa til Kodiers itadgiafa sins “þess bid s
ek at þu giorer ocku kompanum kunnigt huar þeir
siokongar sie edur uikingar edr hermenn at ÍEægazter
eru ok uti liggia j hofunum ok fieuoner væri mestar”. 6
Kodier suarer “.ij. fostbrædr liggia uti j Eystra sallti.
heiter annar Randuer sterke en annar Aunundr
grickK. bader eru þeir væner menn at aaliti. sterker 9
ok storer ok grimazter allRa herkonga ok Reynder j
framgongu. Randuer hefer fellt .xxx. berserkia j
einuigum enn Aunundr .xx. allR sior er sua(r)tur 12
fyrer þeirra herskipum. þeir liggia wti aull sumur.
maanadi fyrer jol sigla þeir under þær eyiar er liggia
wt under Kalldialandi. þær hefer kongrinn gefit til 1»
þess at þeir fridi land hans fyrer uikingum. þar hafa
þeir latid giora haller .ij. aunguar finnazt adrar jafn-
storar suo at menn hafi spurn af ne agætare at aullu 1»
smidi. sitiandi sialfer j annari med ollu sinu herfolki.
adra hafa þeir fyllda af gulli ok gimsteinum pelh ok
purpara ok gulli faidum vefium suo at einskis mannz 21
tunga er suo frod at telia kunni marka tal med
21 purpura 471, 98v, 593 b, 6r.
they can find vikings to fight with in order to gain trea-
sure: Koder names two brothers in arms, Randver the
Strong and Qnundr the Greek (grikkr), who lie out in
the Eystrasalt (“Eastern sea”). Randver has killed thirty
berserkers in single combat, Qnundr twenty; they engage
in piracy in the summer, and a month before Yule go
to spend the winter off the coast of Kaldíaland, on islands
which the king of those parts has given them in return
for their defending his country from vikings; there they
have built two great halls, one for themselves and their
men, the other as a storehouse for their treasure. A