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uid. hann heyrdi og dunur miklar. og þui næst kom
fram ur skoginum jotun einn ogurliga stor. Hann var
skaullottur. enn þat har sem med uaungum var var 3
suo hart sem talknfaner og tok nidr under bellti. Augu
hans uoru opin en mikil sem stauduuautn og huit sem
hiegeitlar. bryn hafdi hann storar og suartar sem 6
krakur. huarma harin laung og so snorp sem suins
busti. Nef hans var med .iiij. hlyckium og sie nidr fyrir
32r munninn | Tenn hans uoru gular og skaugudu langt o
fram ur þiofskiaptinum a honum. enn hann var so
hu(o)pta mikill sem j naust sæi. hann hafdi fotsidar
hendr og langa fingr og negl sem gams klær og at 12
aullu uar hann uerr enn fra mætti segia. hann kuaddi
k(ong)s(on) med nafni. hann tok vel kuediu hans og
spurdi huer hann væri edur huadan hann hefdi at 15
komit. “aungv vardar þig þat” sagdi hann “huadan
eg kom. enn nafn mitt segi eg þier eigi. enn þo a eg
uid þic erindi” “þa muntu verda at birta þat” sagdi ís
k(ong)s(on). hinn seger “eg er sendr epter gullhring
8 sie] hieck 548, 3r, 577, 6r, 599, 2v.
10 þiofskiaptinum] gomnvm 548, 3r, 599, 2v.
10-11 enn—sœi] kiaptrinn suo mikill sem navst væri 548, 3r,
577, 6r, 599, 2v.
giant appear from the forest. The giant is bald but has a
beard that bristles like strips of whale-bone and reaches
to below his belt. His eyes are as big as lakes and as white
as quartz. His eye-brows are as large and black as crows;
his eye-lashes as long and sharp as pig-bristles; his nose
is four-times hooked and reaches to below his mouth. His
teeth are yellow and protruding and his jaws gape so wide
that it is like looking into a boat-house; his hands hang
down to the ground and his finger-nails resemble the
claws of a bird-of-prey. He greets the king’s son by name
but refuses to say where he himself comes from or what
he is called. He tells, however, that he has been sent to
collect the ring and offers in exchange as much gold as