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3. (Þ)ess er getit eitt sinn at kongr var a skog
farinn med hird sinni sem optar. einn dag var uott
vedr og sat k(ongr) j tialldi sinu a skoginum og s
smasueinar hans hia honum og son hans en hirdin
iagade d vr a skoginum. at tialldi kongs kom einn madr
Ridandi med Riddara buningi mikill uexti. med honum e
Reid ein kona. hun var eigi miog dafrid og samde ser
þo vel. hun var vel buin. þau gengu j tialldit og
kuoddu k(ong). hann tok þui vel og spurde huat 9
kuinna hun væri. (enn hun) sagdizt vera kominn utan
allt af Affrika og kuezt eiga þar velldi. “en skip min
eru hier vid sio enn minn herra hefer bannat mier 12
mitt nafn at segia. enn eg var Ridin a skog at skemta
mier. eda er þat þin son er þar situr hia þier”. k(ongr)
kuad þat satt vera. kongr sier at hun hefer gullhring 15
a hendi og hafdi ei kongr sied meire gersimi. og so
mikil eigingirni kom at honum at hann uilldi fyrir
7 hun] voith this word begins 599, lr.
10 enn hun\ from 548, lv, 577, 4v, 599, lr.
often spends weeks at a time out in the forests with
his retainers.
3. On one occasion, as so often before, the king had
gone to the woods with his retainers. One rainy day the
king is sitting in his tent in the forest together with his
pages and his son, while the retainers are outside hunting.
A man and a woman come riding up to the tent. He is a
big man in knightly array. She is not exceptionally
beautiful but nice-looking and well-dressed. They go into
the tent and greet the king. He asks who she is and she
replies that she has come all the way from Africa, where
she has a realm, and that her ships are lying at anchor
here but that her lord has forbidden her to reveal her
name. She asks whether it is the king’s son who is sitting
beside him and he replies that this is so. When he catches
sight of an exceptionally precious gold ring on her arm,
the king is so inflamed with desire for it that he is