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af sinum hernadi suo at ovist er at uita huer meÍRe
kappi hefer verit wm hans daga en hann j nordr-
3 hailfunni. þeir baurduzt þria daga fulla ok fasta. Enn
med þui at Geirmini vard eigi þat lagat at verda
vopndaudum. helldr anndazt wr sott med naatur-
e ligu edli heimsins ok deyia vegliga j sinum kong-
domi þa fiellu þeir f(ost)brædur fyrer honum bader
Ran(dver) (ok) Aunundr med godum ordztir ok
9 mikilli hreysti. eignazt Ge(i)rminer kongr þa bædi at-
kuædauopnin kesiuna ok brynþuarann. sigldi sidan
heim til Danmerkur ok settizt wm kyrt at Riki sinu.
12 hann aati .ij. s(onu). hiet annar Hraungudr hinn
hugumstori. en annar Helgi hinn huassi. Hraungudi
gaf Geirminer bædi folkuopnin kesiuna ok brynþuar-
ió ann ok fyrer þeim vopnum fiellu þeir KaaRÍ ok AuRn-
olfur*). bar Hraungudr þau til daudadags. lyktazt hier
saga af hinum vollduga Wic(tor) ok hinum aagæta
i8 B(lauus).
8 Randver ok Aunundr] -f- 593 b.
battle lasts three full days and the two comrades are
finally killed. Geirmínir takes the two weapons back with
him to Denmark and gives them to one of his two sons,
Hraunguðr (or Hronguðr) the Bold (inn Jiugumstóri); his
other son is Helgi the Sharp (inn hvassi). By the two
weapons, which Hraunguðr bore to his dying day, there
fell both Kári and Qrnólfr*).—So ends the story of the
mighty man Victor and the excellent man Blávus.
*) The saga-writer here assumes knowledge of an incident
which is related at the beginning of Hrómundar saga Grips-
sonar. This saga is now known only in a seventeenth-century
version (printed in Fornaldarsögur Norðrlanda, II, 1829,
p. 365 ff., c/. also Eugen Kölbing, Beitráge zur vergl. Geschichte
d. romantischen Poesie u. Prosa d. Mittelalters, 1879, p. 159 ff.,
Björn K. Þórólfsson, Rimur fyrir 1600, 1934, p. 353 ff., and
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