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kongs nm allt landith, og var þat kallader meiköngar
i þann ti'ma, er so breittu, tök hun at sier nikiz stiörn
3 og let kalla sig Inga, hun var riklind og stiörnsóm
og stöd so mikel ögn af henne ad ejnge vogade
ödruvis at giora enn hun villde, nii frettast þesse
6 tidende vida, og þiker mónnum mikels um vert, þötte
mörgum gödr kostur þar sem Jngegerdr var, og þvi
rjedu til ágiæter menn at bidja hennar, enn þat först
9 ^llum ejrn veg þvi' hiin ljet alla drepa, og binda hófud
þeirra vid gardstaura, enn þeir menn sem sier töku
vetrvist hiá henne þá forred hiin alla, enn tök fe
12 þeirra til sin, vard hun af þessu vidfræg enn ej vinsæl,
og þötte mönnum þetta mikel vandræde, hun gaf
sier ei miked at þessu, og hellt uppteknum hætte,
13 hun var á flesta hannirde miog kæn, og barst þat
vi'da, og þötte þvi mörgum fiselegt at fá hennar ef
þess jrrdi auded, stöd nii so mikell ötte af hennar
tiltektum at ejnge vogadi hennar at bidja, edr nockr
vidskipte vid hana at eiga, og for so framm um hennar
3 og-Inga] ^ 123, 14r, 167, 37r.
10 gardstaura] steingur vte fyrir hóllinne 167, 37r.
3. Ingigerðr novv summons an assembly from the whole
of the land. She is now fifteen years old and is accepted
as king over all the land. Such female kings were at that
time called maiden-kings. She lets herself be called Ingi
and is so proud and imposing that no one dares to go
against her will. Many distinguished men come to seek her
hand in marriage but the end of it is for all of them that
she has them killed and their heads set up on stakes. Those
men who spend the winter at her court she deprives of
their belongings. Because of all this she becomes renowned
far and wide but not popular. This does not affect her
at all, however, and she continues to act in the same
way. She is very skilled at handwork and is so famed
for this that many men desire to marry her but because
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