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fund. og bad hann ganga til herskipa og seiger honum
fyrir alla hlute hueriu hann skal fram fara. Hle-
3 (skiolldur) gengur nu til skipa og fretter huort kongar
fara med fridi. Heidarlogi s(eger) “ef drott(ning) vill
giptast audrum huorum ockrum brædra. þái er þetta
8 land og Eiki friailst fyrir ockrum hernadi. ella munu
vit eýda landit. brenna og bæla og þyrma aungu”.
Hle(skiolldur) svarar “eigi kenner m(ey)k(ongur) sig
9 mann til at hallda strid vit Serkia her. og suo aigiæta
kongs sonu sem þit erud. vil eg seigia þier Velogi
trunad m(ey)k(ongs). hun vill tala vit sier huorn
12 ýckaEn og profa visku ýckra og máál snilld. vill hon
at þu ganger snemma aá | hennar fund sádur en broder 35v
þinn stendur vpp. þuiat eg veit at hon kys þig til
13 bonda”. binda þeir þetta nu med sier. at næstu natt
lidinni gengur Velogi heim til borgarinnar med .xc.
manna. og er þeir koma vnder haufud port borgar-
11 trunad-hun] j trúnadi ad meykongur 567, XVIII, 2v.
17 haufud port] so 567, XVIII, 2v, port haufud MS.
arrived in France, Hléskjgldr goes at the queen’s request
down to their ships to learn whether they come with
peaceful intent. To this Heiðarlogi replies that if the
queen will marry either him or his brother, they will spare
the land but that otherwise they will burn and ravage it
and leave nothing standing. Hléskjqldr says that the
queen does not consider herself to be in a position to
fight against the Saracen army and two such excellent
princes as they are. He adds in confidence to Vélogi that
the queen wishes to talk to each of them individually to
test their wisdom and eloquence and that Vélogi is to
come first, before his brother has arisen, for he knows
that she will choose Vélogi as her husband. The next
morning Vélogi goes with a thousand men to the castle
and when they have reached the main gate, Hléskjqldr
has the glass canopy rolled out and pitch and sulphur