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sette havfvd Soleyiar á bord fyrer kongen alblodugt.
og m(ælti) suo. “Nu er daudr Kolr kryppa mágr þinn.
3 hin mest(e) spilluirkjr sem ueret hefer. og tak nu uid
haufdj hans frillv og munu þessir spilluirkjar eigi
leingr spilla rikj þinu”. kongr uard svo reidr uid ord
e hans at hann bad sina menn upp standa og drepa fol
þetta er suo myckla suiuirdjng hefer honum giort. at
setia þat höfud á bord fyrer hann er suo uar háttad.
a “þuiat þo at eg uillda mina d(ottur) dauda fyrer sin
jllbrigdj. þa ma eg ei þa skamm þola at hennar blod
renne yfer min bord. suo sem þat kalle a mig til
12 hefndar epter sig. þuj skal Yilmundr eigi fyrer mjn
augu koma at suo bunu minu lyndi”. menn uoru eigi
skioter til at rada at V(ilmundi) og snerj hann burt
13 ur haullunj. og bad sin suein taka sinn hest. og reid
V(ilmundr) nu til sins faudr og seger honum sem
komit er. en Suidj s(eger) at kongr hefdj mikjt til sins
i8 mals. og þat uære ofraun. at setia slikt hofud á bord
fyrer kong. V(ilmundr) duelzt nu med fedr sinum. og
sidan tekr hann ser hesta og marga menn til fylgdar.
2i og ferr j kastala þann sem Kolr hafdj att. og uoru þar
3 meste] aupplied frorn 549, 15v.
wards he goes into the hall and sets the bloody head of
“Sóley” on the table before the king, announcing that
Kolr kryppa, the king’s “son-in-law”, is now dead and
likewise his mistress. The king is so enraged at his words
that he orders his men to rise up and kill him, since he
cannot tolerate that his daughter’s blood should stain
his table. The men, however, are not swift to seize him
and he manages to escape from the hall, gets his boy to
lead his horse forward and now rides to liis father and
tells what has happened. Svíði says that the king had
very good cause to be angry over it. Vilmundr stays for
some time with his father. Later he leaves with his horse,
accompanied by many attendants, and makes for the