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heffur jaffnann skiemt ockur fru *Suialin j vetur,
med þynum hliodfærum, og fogrum fraasógum, nu
vil eg ad þu ganger j dag med ockur, skulum vid nu s
skiemta þier”. Eskilvardur þiggur þad giarnann, og
geingur med þeim j skiemmuna. meýkongur took
upp stein og bad hann j lyta, hann sa þa yffer allt e
Frackland, Provintiam, Eavenam, Spaniam, Halliti-
am, Friisland, Flandren, Nordmandiam, Skottland,
Grickland, og allar þær þiooder þar biggia. Meykongr 9
mæ(lti) “ecki sigler Livorius kongr j þessar aalffur
heimsens, edur mun hann heima vera”. Annann dag
bydur drottning Eskilvard til skiemmunnar “þu heffur 12
jaffnann skiemt oss j vetur”. Drottning bad Eskil-
(vard) enn lyta j steininn. þa sau þau nordur aalffuna
alla, Noreg, Ysland, Færeýar, Sudureyar, Orkneýar, 15
Svijþiod, Danmork, Eingland, Ýrland, og morg lond
onnur, þau er hann visse eý skil a. drottning mæ(lti)
“mun Livorius kongr hinn fræge eckj sigla j þesse ís
1 Suialin] from 568, 7, 15v; cf. below p. 322; Listalin MS.
and Svialín (in the MS 529 catted Sýjalín) during the
winter with his playing and his stories, she will now
provide him with some entertainment. He goes with her
into her chamber. She takes a stone and asks him to look
into it and he can then see out over the whole of France,
Provincia, Ravenna, Spania, Hallitia (Helvetia?), Frís-
land, Flanders, Normandy, Scotland and Greece, and all
the people who live there. The queen says that King
Livorius is not sailing within these regions and that he
is perhaps, therefore, at home. Another day she again
invites him to look into the stone and they can then see
out over the whole of the northern hemisphere, namely
Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, the Hebrides, the
Orkneys, Sweden, Denmark, England, Ireland and, in
addition, many lands which he does not recognize. The
queen asks whether Livorius is not sailing there and