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tok haufudit. sidan hio hann af hremsr drekans vid
bogunum dyrsins. enn þat skreid at V(ilhialmi). hann
3 geck nu þangat sem elldrinn brann og kemur <at)
bóli drekans og var þar mikit gull og .iij. ungar miog
stalpader og drap V(ilhialmur) þa og tok slikt af gulli
« sem honum likadi. for sidan til tiallz sins. dyrit fylgdi
honum og skilde alldri uid hann medan þat lifdi.
dualdizt hann þar nockurar nætur og græddi dyr sitt.
9 epter þat biozt hann þadan og *stefnir ut at hafinu.
14. <Þ)a er V(ilhialmur) kemr ut at Niörfuasundum
kemur hann eitt kuelld ur morkinni fram. sier hann
12 þa fagrar grunder og haufn vena. þar fliota a .xu. skip
glæsilig med gylldum ueduruitum enn a landi *uar
langtialld med dyrum uefium. þottizt hann skilia at
15 þar mundi mikilhæfer menn fyrir nada. hann ste af
baki uti fyrir langtialldinu. vardmenn heilsudu
honum. enn hann spurdi huat haufþingi þeirra h(et)
2 Vilhialmi] fotvm honum suo sem hundr at lánar drotni
sinvm 548, 7r, 577, lOr.
3 at] frorn 548, 7r, 577, lOr.
4 og1] ivitli this word the text in 599 begins again, 7r.
9 stefnir] from 548, 7r, 599, 7r, snefner MS.
13 uar] uoru MS.
its head. He then frees the lion by cutting off the dragon’s
claws. The lion creeps up to him. He goes over to where the
fire is burning and finds the dragon’s bed with much
gold and three fully-grown young, which he kills. After-
wards he takes as much gold as he desires and retires to
his tent, accompanied by the lion, who is inseparable from
him for the rest of its life. After waiting there some days
and healing the lion, he goes on towards the sea.
14. One evening Vilhjálmr emerges from the forest near
the Straits of Gibraltar (Njgrfasund), where he sees a fair
harbour and fifteen splendid ships with golden weather-
cocks and on land a tent of precious stuff. He dis-
mounts before this tent and learns from the sentries