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nidur aa herdumm honum, og hrauck sem lokasponn.
breidauxe mikla silfurrekna i hennde, er | fader hanz
hafde gefit honumm. Kielling kom þa vt og mællte. s
“Hvort ætlar þu nu ad fara Wilmundur” sagde hun.
“Eg ætla ad leyta at Giæfu” qvad hann. “Sialldann
hefur þu meir vanndad bvning þinn enn so mikit” «
sagde hun. “Eg mun nu ei fyrr heim koma enn finn
Giæfu” quad Wilmundur. “Wel være þa” sagde hun
“ef so irde”. Sijdan bad hann vel lifa faudur sinn og »
mödur. og gieck burt ai sköginn. Enn er hann hafde
kannat þær leýter sem hann var vanur, þa var
frammordid miög. Og lagdizt hann til svefns i 12
hellisskvta einumm, og svaf þar af wmm nottina.
Enn vmm morguninn er hann vaknar, var komenn
ai þoka so mýrk ad hann sa hverge fraa sier. Gieck 15
hann þa wmm skögenn og villtest, og wisse ei hvar
hann för. Gieck hann so allan þann dag, og annann
til kvolldz. og var þokann æ þui mýrkare. Hann var i»
nu komenn ad homrumm nockrumm. og þottizt
6 mikit] -f- 549, 7r.
band round his silken-gold hair that reaches down to his
shoulders. In his hand he has a large, silver-inlaid, broad-
bladed axe, which his father has given him. His mother
comes out and remarks that he has seldom taken so much
trouble with his appearance before. He replies that he will
not return home until he has found Gæfa. He then takes
his leave of his father and mother and goes away into the
forest. When he has searched in all the places where he is
accustomed to do, it is late and he lies down to sleep
beneath a jutting rock. The next morning when he
awakes, there is such a dense fog that he cannot see
anything and he loses his way in the forest. All that day
and the next he wanders round but the fog gets thicker
and thicker. He has now come to some rocks and he thinks
he can hear human voices and the sound of all kinds of