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honum. þar sá hannnyutýer meýa og margt folk annad
og var þat ad maltýd. eina meý sá hann þar so fagra
3 ad alldri hafde hann fegri sied. hræddust þær dýrid.
kongz d(ottir) m(ælti) “set þig nidur godur dreyngur
og seig oss tydinde en abyrgst þig sialfur, þui okunn-
6 ugum leýfist hier eý jnn at ganga”, hann sest nidur
á eirn stöl, jomfruin spir hann ad nafni hann seger
henne þat og fösturland sitt, “med huorium forstu
9 hingat yfer hafid”, “med R(egin)b(alld)” sagdi hann
“ertu hanz godur vin” sagdi hun “vel giórdi hann til
min” sagdi hann “edur med leyfe vil eg spýria ertu
12 *Astrinomia k(ongs) d(ottir)” “ja” sagdi hun. “huat
merkia þessar steyngur og manna hófud a” hun
s(agdi) “þat eru hofud af þeim sem ordlofslaust hafa
15 hier jnngeingit, enn sumer hafa myn bedit, og er
þetta þeim giort mote mýnum vilia”.
19. Xu er R(egin)b(alld) komenn j hásæte og saknar
i8 Vilh(ialmz) hann spurdi syna menn huar hann væri
12 Astrinomia] from 548, lOv, 599, llv; cf. below p. 4117 etc.;
Astronomia MS.
then he and the lion enter the tower. Here he finds ninety
maidens and other people sitting eating. They are
frightened by the lion but the maiden whom he considers
the most beautiful of them all and who is a princess bids
him be seated and asks him for news. She says, however,
that he must himself accept responsibility for his coming
for it is forbidden for strangers to enter here. He tells her
his name and father-land and that he has come there in
company with his good friend Reginbald. The princess is
called Astrinomia and to his question as to the meaning
of the stakes bearing liuman heads which he can see, she
replies that they are the heads of those who have entered
without permission, some of whom sought her hand in
marriage, but that this has been done against her will.
19. When Reginbald is seated in the high-seat, he
misses Vilhjálmr but none of his men can tell him what