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22. (V)Jlhialmur er nu kominn j borgina Treckt.
hann var suo vel skiliandi at hann kunni allar tungur
3 at tala og þurfti hann huergi tulk. hann spurdi
borgarmenn huer herra uæri borgarinnar | en þeir 37v
saugdu at hann h(et) Katon og hefdi horfit burt fyrir
s nockurum uetrum og uissi engi huat af honum var
ordit. og tolfmanudum sidar huarf hans Eadgiafi er
Isakar h(et) og hefer til huorkis þeirra spurzst sidan.
9 hefer V(ilhialmur) nu friett af huert Ermlaugar væri
at leita og kunni honum þat eingi madur at segia enn
þa hann fer j burtu stefner hann afiallgard þann sem
12 Astrinomia hafdi honum fyrir sagt og Eidr unzs hann
finnur þann launstig sem honum uar til uisat. og hafdi
hann nu j burtu uerit .ij. uetur af Englandi og þat
i5 hins þridia arsins sem þa uar komit og uoru þa .x.
uikur til ara skiptis. nu sier hann hus mikit j skoginum
og þikizt hann nu kenna huar hann er kominn og
18 Eidur nu til hussins og stigr af hesti sinum og gengur
til hurdar og spretter a sprota. enn litlu sidar uar
hurdu upp lokit og kom þar ut kona j blarri hecklu
11 hann] + v (incorrectly) MS.
13 honum] written in the margin with a mark of insertion MS.
22. Vilhjálmr understands all languages and has no
need of an interpreter. From the citizens of Trekt he
learns that their king, who is called Katon, disappeared
without trace some years ago and that one year later the
king’s counsellor, Isakar, disappeared too. No one can
tell him where he can find Ermlaug and he therefore rides
away from the city along the road Astrinomia has indi-
cated. He has now been away from England for two whole
years and so much of the third one that there are ten
weeks to go until the beginning of a new year. He comes
to the house in the forest, dismounts and knocks at the
door. The door is opened and a woman in a blue cloak and
with something white on her head comes out. She has a
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