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5. Meikongrinn tök i hond Sigrgardi, og leiddi hann
i hasæte og bad hann vera gladan, siþan settest hun
3 nidr hiá honum og töku menn til drickju, og var
jungfruen enn gladasta, si'þan tekr hun ejna gullskál,
dreckr hun til Sigrg(ardi) og m(ælti) so, “þvi ertu ej
e gladr” s(eger) hon, “fru” s(eger) hann “mig ugger ad
ydur þike eg litla glede hafa sint ydur á þesse nött”,
enn hun svarar “vist hugda eg til meira um, og þö
9 hefi eg þat hejrt talad, ad drucknum manne kinne
margt til handa ad bera þat at hann være ej iafnrar
nátturu sem þá er hann være ödruckenn, og má þetta
12 snart bætast ef þier er nockr náttura sköpud, og mun
eg ej gefa þier þetta ad skulld first ad sinne, enn so
mun mier fara sem odrum, at eg mun slika lute ei
15 þola leinge ordalaust”, lidr dagr þesse og er jungfruen
en bli'dasta, hun mintest opt vid Sigrgard um daginn,
og á medal annara luta m(ælti) hun so til hans,
i8 “med hvorju villtu yfer bæta þá ginning sem þii
giórder mier i nött, þikjunst eg sæmda verd firer
þat at eg þegi yfer skömm þinne, þætte mier verda
21 mega ad þier yrdi þetta optar þö at eg vogadi enn
til vid þig”, “ejge vejt eg þann lut” s(eger) hann “at
mier mune þikja þier ofgödr”, “skiolld og sverd sá
5. The queen takes Sigrgarðr’s hand and leads him
to the high-seat. She herself sits beside him and the men
begin to drink. Slie takes a golden bowl, drinks to him
and asks why he is not glad. He replies that it is because
he has not given her much pleasure that night but she
says that one cannot expect as much in that respect from
a drunken man as from a sober one but that things will
soon take a turn for the better, if he is at all virile. The
whole day long she is extremely kind to him and kisses
him often. Among other things she asks him how he
intends to compensate her for the wrong he did her the
previous evening so that she will keep it secret. When
he says that nothing seems to him to be too good for