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.ij. sonu, het annar Hogne enn annar Sigmundur,
þeir voru störer menn og sterker, og öfirerleitner þegar
i uppruna slnum, og villdu rada meir enn ad hálfu 3
vid hvorn sem þeir áttu, þeir voru leiksvejnar kongs
sonar, og mællte hann opt epter þeim þá er hird-
menn giordu þeim hardleiked, þviat þeir untu þeim 0
sialldan jafnleikis, þeir voru sialldan vinsæler, þeir
voro litt setter at klædum, enn þa/ sem voru rifu
hirdmenn af þeim enn kongs son bætte þeim ávallt. 9
Ulfr het rádgiafe kongs, hann vandadi um þetta vid
kongs son, hann qvad honum þat ofrád, hann rede
ej hvorjum hann giæfe nidrlags fót sin, þá bad Ulfur 12
hirdmenn giora þeim hardleiked so þeir þirdi ei til
leiks at fara, hirdmenn giordu so. Melsnate het þræll
hann var mikell og sterkur so at hann hafdi .xij. kalla 15
afl til hvors sem hann gjeck. Ulfur bejdde ad Mel-
snate skilldi drepa annanhvorn þeirra brædra kalls-
sona, var nii leiked af kappe um daginn, slo Melsnati is
knóttenn yfer hófud Hógna, vard hann langt at ellta
7 sialldan vinsæler] eckj vægner amot 123, llv, ei væpner (!)
á mote 167, 35v.
and Sigmundr, who are big and strong, impetuous and
domineering. They are friends of Sigrgarðr and he
always takes their part when the retainers turn against
them. They are not very popular and the retainers often
strip them of the few raiments they wear. The king’s
son, however, always compensates them for this. The
king’s adviser, who is called Úlfr, reproaches Sigrgarðr
for doing this and urges the retainers to be so violent
in their treatment of the two brothers that they will
not dare to show their faces there again. Úlfr orders a
slave called Melsnati, who is as strong as twelve men,
to kill one of them. At a ball-game in which Hrigni and
Sigmundr and Úlfr and Melsnati are taking part there
is much rough play and it ends with Hpgni’s giving Úlfr