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sumstadar. og dræpi þau menn ef þau sæi þa. “alfar
lifa og eru þeir j j ördu nidri’ ’. kall atte margt ganganda
3 fe bædj geitr og hafra yxn og gell(d)inga. Vilmundr
geymdj jafnan at fenadj. hann skaut opt dyr og fugla.
for nu suo fram þar til at hann uar *tvitvgvr (at)
e alldrj. þat er nu sagt eitt huert sinn at Vilmundr
geck um skogen at leita geita sinna. hann geck þa
upp ur dalnum leingra en hann uar uanr. og kom hann
9 á sannda nöckura sletta. þar uar mork breid audru-
megen. hann geck um sannden og uar þar hladjt
saman steinum j nöckurum stad. þar uar j heitt uatn
12 suo at rauk af. þa sa hann manna spor og hafdj hann
þat eigi fýrr sed. hann fann eirn gullbuen sko. hann
tok upp ok geymde. hann sá eirn storan stein nauckud
13 suo fra laugine. þangat geck hann til. þuj þangat lagu
sporen. hann geck at steinenum og uar gluggr á
honum. þar sá hann jnne þriar konur. og uar ein uid
3 gelldinga] supplied from 577, 74r, GkS 1006 fol, p. 552.
5 tvitvgvr at\frorn 577, 74r, GkS 1006 fol, p. 552, tujtugu
MS.
that in some parts of the world there are trolls still alive
and that they kill human-beings if they see them and
that there are also fairies who live underground. Svíði
owns many goats and he-goats, oxen and wethers.
Vilmundr often minds the animals. He often shoots
animals and birds. Time passes in this way until he is
about twelve years old. On one occasion he wanders round
in the forest searching for his goats and comes further
away from the valley than he has ever done before and
reaches sorne sandy plains, bordered on the one side by a
wide forest. In the sand he sees not only a pile of stones,
in which t-here is some steaming hot water, but also the
footprints of a human-being, something he has never seen
before. He finds a gold adorned shoe, which he picks up
and keeps. Afterwards he goes up to a great rock, towards
which the footsteps lead. There is a peephole in it and
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