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son Wlfars hins itaunma. hann vill bidia min og er
mer sagt ath kongr muni gipta mig huort eg vil edr
3 eigi en eg veit at hann mun einskis jllz suiuazt enn
eg vil eigi eiga hann ef eg ma odru vid koma. þui uil
eg at þu dreper hann fyrer mina skulld og skalltu þa
6 hafa fullkomna mina uinattu og kiosa þau laun sem
þu villt sialfur kiosa”. Kolr mællti. “þui mun eg þat
uinna” s(eger) hann “þui at þa hefi eg kongs reidi og
9 margra annara godra manna og ma eg þa kallazt
drottinsuikari. og vist eigi einhlitr at komazt ur
þessum uandrædum”. “allt uex þer j augu aurm
ís mannskræfa” s(eger) hun. “og ma uera at eirn huer
uerdj til annar ef eg legg sialfa mig j ued”. “eigi
þarftu at fryia mer hugar” s(eger) Kolr. “En ef þu
15 uillt siálfa þig j ued setia. þa mun eg til uöga en ouist
þickj mer huersu eg nýt þin ef kongr uerdr uar uid”.
“þat mun epter þuj sem uid uerdum samráda”
ís q(uad) hun “og skaltu suo til haga at þetta uite eingi
vtan uid t(v)au. og skalltu þa gera kastala á skogi.
og skulu uid fara þangat þegar upp uist uerdr vm
8 uinna] written in the margin with a mark of insertion MS.
19 tvau] supplied from GkS 1006 fol, p. 548.
kryppa and confides in him. She does not want to be
married to Úlfr and, if Kolr will kill him, he shall have
her whole friendship and choose whatever he wishes as
his reward. He is at first unwilling to do what she asks,
for the king’s anger will be turned on him and he will
be called a traitor to his master. When Sóley derides him
for lacking courage, however, and says that she would
be certain to be able to find another man who would do
it, if she offered herself in reward, he declares that if
that is the case, he will attempt the deed, although he is
afraid that he will have little joy of her, if the king learns
of it. She has a solution to this problem, however, for they
alone are to know of the match and he is to build a castle