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byri hit bezta ok lægia eigi seglin fyrr en j hofnum
fjTer þeirri hall sem meykongrinn sat j. kasta att-
s kerum en skiota bryggium a land. ok þegar at mey-
kongrinn fretter þat lætur hon verda sent til skipanna
ok bodit Wic(tor) heim til agætRar veizlu. hueria at
6 Wic(tor) sæker med þriu hundrut manna. tekR drott-
ning vid honum agæta vel. skorti engi fong til weizl-
unnar þav er hafa þurfti. war drottning hin blidazta
9 ok yfer dagdryckiu var Wic(tor) liinn gladazti suo
talandi “þat er erindi mitt hingat til landz at bidia
yduar mier til handa”. drottningu setti ymizt Rauda
12 sem blod edur suarta sem jord so felldum ordum
talandi “mikil undr er huad mikil dirf j huerium
manni liggr er þu skyllder treystazt at tala þuilikum
15 ordum vid oss. er þier þat uonarlaus dul at ek m|una 54vb
vilia ganga med þier þott þu eiger hid fatæka Frack-
land þar sem ek ai hit agæ{t)azta land er j er heim-
18 inum sem Indi(a)land er. þuiat nægra er hier gull en
byghleifar a ydru landi. wærer þu ok þess makligur
at ek lieta þegar ganga at ok drepa þik at þu hefer
21 þetta borit suo upp at huer madur maati heyra. þar
hefdi verit nockur von a þui med þui at þu ert
wngur madur ok geruiligr ef þu hefder talad wid mik
24 eina saman at ek hefda verit nær þier suo at engi
13 dirf] so M8; c/. above p. 22h; dirfd 471, 105r, 593 b, 19r.
come to Fulgida’s hall in India: she invites Victor to
a feast, which he attends with three hundred men. As
they sit at drink Victor makes his proposal of marriage:
Fulgida turns alternately red as blood and black as
earth and gives him a sharp rebuff, saying that she,
ruling as she does over the good land of India, would
never marry the king of poor France—gold is more
plentiful in her country than barley-loaves in France;
if only he had spoken to her in private she might have
been willing to bestow her favours, particularly if he