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sinum synj en R(isa)d(otter) sinum brodr. nu gengr
kelling til j annat sinn ok bidr Koll frænda sinn vel
3 komen “ok gack nidr til strandar ok hrind ut stein-
naukua minum”. Kollr gerer nu suo. kelling talar
þa til herra Valldjmars “her er eitt tafl er eg gef
6 þer ok þat med at eg skal fylgia þer j aullum mann-
raunum. ser eg at frændkonu minnj mun suo betur
lika. undrumzt eg er hun dregur undan þann grip er
9 beztr er j hennar ualldj ok moder hennar hafdj af
manheimum ef hun ann þer suo mikjt sem hun
segir”. R(isa)d(otter) suarar “þott eg ætta allt þat
12 gull er fellr j Arabia þa skylldj honum þat ospart”.
hun vindr þa upp einu glerj ok mælltj “þetta gler
gefur eg þer herra Ualldjmar. þat er med þeirrj natt-
15 uru at þat berr tuennan lit gulan ok suartan ok ef
madr ser j gulan lit þa er sa huerium manne fegri
med reisugum uexte | edr smam huort er hann vill 5r
18 helldr kiosa. litr hann j suartan lit þa er hann
daukkri ok diofulligri huerrj skepnu”. Nu ganga þau
til skips. kelling talar þa til Kollz frænda sins “her
17 uexte] repeated at page-division MS.
the giant’s son. The old woman returns and asks Kollr
to launch her stone boat for her: Kollr does so. She gives
Valdimar a chess-board and promises to be with him in
all dangers; and she says she is surprised that her grand-
daughter, if she loves him as much as she says she does,
does not give him her greatest treasure, which her mother
brought back from the world of men. The giant’s daughter
replies that if she had all the gold of Arabia she would
not spare to give it to him: she now produces a mirror
and gives it to him; it has two colours, yellow and black,
and it has the property that, if one looks into the yellow
part, one becomes more beautiful than anyone else and
can make oneself whatever size one wishes, and if one
looks into the black part one becomes the darkest and
most devilish of creatures. They all go down to the boat,
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