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þu ert nu faradr”. Ualldjmar suarar “giarna vil eg
þinu lidsinnj jata”. hun mællte “þat er mjtt et fysta
rad at ef nockr madr bydr þer sitt lidsinnj þa neita 3
þuj eigi. en er þv vaknar þa geym þv vel at þeim
þingum er eg legg at haufdj þer. þat er eirn *dukr.
þar mun a uera allr sa kostr er einum kongsynj 6
byriar at hafa. þar er ok ein kanna med heidarligum
2r dryck. uakta þig vel at þu luk alldri þessarj fæ|du
ne dryck af kaunnunj. skal hun þer þa jafnan full 9
er þer þarfar. munu uid nu skiliazt at sinnj”. epter
suo talad uaknar kongsson ok ser huar dukren liggr
ok rekr j sundr dukin ok finnr þar j allz kynns 12
uænar krasir. hann tekr nu þessa kaunnu ok drekkr
þar af vin. er hann nu vel mettr ok drykkjadr. er
þa sem mællt er at fullr madr kann til flest rad. 15
tekr sidan a sig suefn mickjn. epter langan suefn
stendr hann upp ok tekr sitt ers ok ridr fram a
maurkjna. hann ser þa huar madr uizt burt ur 18
maurkjnj. hann uar kollottr ok eckj stor uexti ok
heilsar a kongsson. hann tekr kvedju hans ok spyri-
andj at nafni. Kollr suarar “nafn mjtt segi eg þer 21
eigi en hins spyr eg huort þu villt þiggia fylgd mjna
5 dukr] from 585 e, lv; cf. below l. 11; diskr MS.
his search for Marmóría. Valdimar gladly accepts. She
advises him to accept any offer of help that may be
made to him, and says that, when he wakes, he must
take great care of two things that she is leaving near
him—a table-cloth bearing food fit for a prince and a
flagon of wine; so long as he makes sure never to exhaust
this food and drink, there will always be enough for his
needs. He wakes to find the table-cloth and the flagon,
eats and drinks his fill, and afterwards falls into a long
and deep sleep. When he wakes he rides on through the
forest and sees a bald little man who greets him and offers