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laginn um þverar lendar honum og tök ofan i knjes-
böt, hann beiddest fars, Sigrgar(dr) spurdi hvad hon-
um være til lista gefed enn hann qvez vel aka segle, s
hann bad hann hafa skip ef hann næde, hinn stock
af berginu og iit á skiped, og gjeck skiped nidr um
nagla, þetta hlaup var (.xiij.) alna af landi, hann c>
greip i aktauma og dreif þegar skiped fra landi, þeir
spurdu hann at nafne, hann qvez Hordr h(eita) og
vera kalladr *hardstiolur, þeir hlöu at honum, annan 9
dag epter sigldu þeir enn med landi framm, þar var
iitgrinne miked, þar stöd madur á landi, sá beiddi
fars, hann var hár vexte og i vargskins stacke, Sigr-1
gar(dr) spurdi þann ad nafne, hann sagdist hejta Vel-
stigandi, Sigrgar(dr) spurdi hvad honum være til lista
gefed, enn hann qvez troda vel marvad, hann qvad 1
(þat) göda iþrött, og bad liann troda til skipz ef
1 lendar] herdar 167, 41r.
6 .xiij ,]from 123, 20v, 167, 41r, open space in MS.
9 -stiolur] from 123, 20v; cf. below p. 1072; -stielur MS.
10 dag] after this word there is a lacuna (2 folios) in 123.
16 þat] from 167, 41v.
to the knee. He asks to be taken onboard. Wlien Sigr-
garðr asks what he can do, he replies that he can brace
sails. He is then allowed to come onboard and springs
in one bouncl of thirteen ells out onto the ship, which
sinks right down to the nails but he seizes hold of the
braces and manages to steer the ship away from land. He
is called Hprðr with the nick-name harðstjplr (“hard poste-
rior”). Those onboard make fun of him. The next day they
sail once more along the coast and here the water is very
shallow. A tall man in a wolf-skin’s tunic is standing on
the shore and asks to be taken onboard. When Sigrgarðr
asks who he is and what he can do, he replies that he is
called Velstígandi (“well-climbing”; later called Stígandi)
and that he is skilled at treading water. Sigrgarðr tells
him to tread water over to the ship if he wants to join