Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series B - 01.10.1962, Síða 79

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trolldomj at hun hafdi þat vr huerju kongs rikj sem
hun kaus. hun attj eirn dreka ham. hun fer med
3 honum vm avll laund. med þeim trolldomj soktj hun
systr þina ok sitr hun nu j turnjnum hia Florida.
villdj Lupa at brudlaup þeirra Blabus uærj giort en
6 kongson uill þat eigi fyrr en þat er hennar vile. Nu
er þer sagt huert þu att at leita eptir þinnj systr ok
ertu nv aungu nær en adr.”
9 Risen stendr nu vpp ok gengr at berginu er stod
hia honum ok hnyr fast. j þessu sprettr vpp bergit
ok gengr þar ut ein kelling suo liot ok leidjlig ful ok
12 fiandlig at einskis mannz auga sa skringiligri skepnu.
hun uar j skaurpum skinnstakkj höfdj ollu hæri en
risen. hann gengr at hennj ok heilsar nu modr sinnj.
15 Nu setiazt þau njdr. risen hof suo sitt mal “suo er
liattad modjr mjn at her er komen son kongs af
Saxlandj ok sækir at mer vm sitt uandrædj. nu er
i8 þar allr uor styrkr ok radagerd sem þu ert”. kelling
suarar “mikjt er þo vm at konga baurn sækia traust
at þer edr mun þar at holpnara þot hæna berj
21 skiolld”. R(isa)dotter leggr henndr vm hals kellingu
ok sagdj suo “mjnnztu faudrmodjr þa modjr mjn feck
mik þer j henndr adr hun do ok bad at þu skylldjr
a dragon’s skin in which she flew about all countries,
and it was she who carried off Marmóría, who now lives
in the tower with Florida. The queen wants Marmóría
to marry Blabus, but Blahus will not consent to this
until it is Marmóría’s will.”
Having told this story, the giant rises, walks towards
the rock, and knocks hard: it opens and out comes an
ugly old woman who is head and shoulders taller
than the giant, and is dressed in a coat of dried leather.
It is the giant’s mother. The giant and his daughter
both ask her to help Valdimar to find his sister, the
daughter reminding her that her mother, before she