Editiones Arnamagnæanæ. Series B - 01.11.1965, Blaðsíða 61

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ockur og muntu gipta sistr þinar brædrum mi'num
og skal eg þá fá þier miklu betre gipting”, “audna
3 mun ráda giptingu minne” s(eger) Jngegerdr, “erm ej
mun eg þvi launa þier at þii hefur mirt fódr minn at
eiga morg mók vid þig helldr skalltu hedan i burt
6 verda i dag og alldrej aptr koma, og báder þi'ner
brædur og fared til þess edles sem þier erud til skópud,
þviat þier megud heita tróll”, þá svarade Hlegerdr.
9 “laungu var mier þess von, at ek munde illt af þier
hliöta, nu legg eg þat á sistr þinar, at Hilldr skal
verda ad gilltu, skulu griser miner súga hana, enn
12 Signi skal verda ad flöka folalldi, skal minn grad-
hestr ellta hana, ok min stödhross henne illt gipra,
þangat (ti I) at þær verda fegnar at eiga brædr mina,
ellegar skulu þær or þeim öskópum alldrei komast á
medan þeir brædur lifa, enn þier er laginn hófdi'ng-
skapr so mikell, at eg get honum ei hneckt. enn þat
14 til] from 123, 13v, 167, 36v.
cool and that Ingigerðr’s sisters should be married to her
two brothers. For Ingigerðr herself she will obtain an
even better match. To this Ingigerðr replies that she does
not wish to reward her for murdering her father by
having anything to do with her and that on the contrary
Hlégerðr is to depart this very day, accompanied by her
brothers, and never more return. She then expresses her
wish that they may assume the nature to which they
are born, for they are in fact trolls. Hlégerðr then lays
a curse upon Hildr that she is to become a sow and
suckle Hlégerðr’s piglets, and one upon Signý tliat she
is to be transformed into a young mare that will be
pursued by her stallion and pestered by her stud-horses,
until the two sisters will be only too glad to be married
to her brothers. If they still refuse, the curse will last
as long as her brothers live. Ingigerðr’s majesty protects
her from such curses as these but Hlégerðr pronounces