Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series B - 01.06.1964, Qupperneq 19

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tok hringinn og sagdi sinum monnum (huad) til tidinda
haf di borit um daginn og syndi þeim hringin og þottuzt
3 þeir eigi þuilikan grip sied hafa. giordi kongr nu menn
af skoginum til siofarins at foruitnazt huat satt
væri um saugu þeirra og funduzt þar huorki menn ne
6 skip. og aunguer haufdu uarir vid ordit at þar hefdi
nockut komit. og þotti maunnum k(ongr) mikla giptu
til hafa borit um uidskipti þeirra. fer k(ongr) nu heim
9 af skoginum. Og litlu sidar fer k(ongr) heim til Eing-
landz og situr nu j sinu Riki langa tima. k(ongs) son
tekur nu at uaxa og hier med eykzt honum afl og
12 jþrotter. huer madur unni honum hugastum. fader
hans baud honum at giora hann Riddara og gefa
honum lien mikit innanlandz. enn Uilhialmur kuezt
i5 ecki med fie kunna at fara. enn kuezt nafnbotum ecki
auka uilia fyrr enn hann ynni nauckut til frægdar.
kongr gaf honum hringinn þann sem hann hafdi
ís fengit a skoginum og sagdi þat makligazt at hann
njdi hans fyrir þat at hann var j moti honum settur.
lidr nu til þess at Uil(hialmur) er .xv. uetra gamall.
1 huad]/rom 548, 2r, 577, 5r, 599, lv.
19 var] written in the margin MS.
them all that has happened. He sends some of them down
to the sea to check whether the strangers’ story was true
but they are unable to see any sign of men or ships and
no one has witnessed the arrival of any ship there.
Shortly afterwards the king returns to England and stays
in his kingdom here for a long time. Vilhjálmr grows up
and his father offers to dub him knight and give him a
large estate but Vilhjálmr does not wish to rise in rank
until he has earned fame for himself. The king gives him
the ring, saying that he must be the one most qualified
to receive it, since he himself was staked against it. Time
passes now until Vilhjálmr is fifteen years old. He is so
strong that no man in the whole land can compare with