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okkr. eg ueit eigi at mer mune annann bonda son
betra at eiga en þig. ef þat skal þo fyrir mer liggia”.
og binda þau nu þetta fastmælum. og gefr hun s
honum eitt gull til truskapar her umm.
ð. (U)m nattena býr Kolr ferd sina til land(t)iallda
Ulfs. Ulfr let aunguan uörd hallda. og hofdu menn e
druckner nidr lagizt. og uissu ser einskes otta uón.
Ulfr suaf j sæng er Kolr geck j tialldit. hann hafdj
miott jarn j hendj og á tueir anngar. hann rekr upp 9
skinnet under hendj Ulfs. og stingr þar jnn þessu
jarne suo at stod j hiartanu. en helldr saman skinenu
fyrer utan suo at allt blæder jnn. og legzt ofan ýfer 12
höfudjt á honum suo at hann kom ongum hliodum
upp. og skilzt nu suo uid hann at hann mýrder hann
sofanda og urdu þeir eigi uarer uid sem j tialldjnu 15
uoru. j þenna tima hefer Soleý kallad til sin Ausku-
busku ambatt. og talar suo til hennar. “kaup uil eg vid
þig eiga” s(eger) hun. “huernueg er þuj uaret” s(eger) is
ambatten. “Eg uil at uid skiptum litum og klædum”
5 landtiallda] supplied from GkS 1006 fol, p. 548.
16 uoru] with this word the text in 577 begins again, 73r.
in the forest, to which they are to flee when they are ex-
posed. She concludes by saying that there is no farmer’s
son she would rather have than him and gives him a gold
ring as a pledge of fidelity.
5. At night Kolr goes to Úlfr’s camp. There is no one
on guard and the men are lying unsuspecting, fast asleep
after heavy drinking. Ulfr is lying in his bed, when Kolr
enters his tent bearing a slender iron rod with two spikes.
He draws back the coverlet of skin, plunges the rod into
his heart and then holds the skin together on the outside
so that the blood does not pour out, and lies over his head
so that no sound can be heard from him. No one in the
tent realises what is happening. While this is going on,
Sóley has summoned Qskubuska to her and ordered her