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geck ymizt a haundum edur fotum. enn stundum
hraut hann suo langt at honum þotti ouist huar hann
3 myndi nidr koma. enn miog uar forbregt til siouarins.
jordin sprack j sundr og urdu j hana mick<l)ar giar.
og storum biorgum kastadi langann ueg suo at
c undrum gegndi. og þessu næst hraut V(ilhialmur) ofan
fyri biorgin enn þar uar under sem hann kom nidur
fliotandi batur og var þar j Ermlaug og breiddi hun
o under hann mavttul sin og sakadi hann ecki. Enn
langa stund uar hann j ouiti. Ermlaug greiddi þa
EÖdr undan landi. enn þui næst sprungu ofan hamr-
12 arner og fyllti þa batinn under þeim. tok V(ilhialmur)
þa at ausa og var helldr mikil uirkur. enn undr þessi
hiellduzt allann daginn og nottina þar til at dagur
ís Bann. tok þa at kyrrazt um enn þa biart uar sau þau
upp alandit. og uar þa umsnuin jordin og matti eigi
þeckia at hin sama uæri. EÖa þau nu til landz og uar
18 þar nu uida uppgangr sem adr matti huergi upp
3 forbregt] forbreckis 548, 17v, 577, 22v, 599, 18r.
16 alandit] with this word ends 577, 22v;f. 23r-v is writ'en in
a younger hand on top of the original text which has been
erased; no variants have, therefore, been given from this
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forth, now on his hands, now on his feet. The earth splits,
great fissures form and tremendous rocks are hurled
around far and wide. Vilhjálmr is thrown down from the
cliff and lands in a boat, in which Ermlaug is sitting. She
holds out her cloak and breaks his fall so that he is not
injured. For a long time, though, he lies unconscious and
Ermlaug has to row the boat away from land. The cliffs
topple down so that the boat fills with water and Vilhjálmr,
who has in the meantime regained consciousness, is fully
occupied baling out. This continues for the rest of the day
and the night as well. At dawn, however, they row into
land. The land is unrecognisable after the tremendous
upheaval and it is no longer difficuit to find a landing-