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sendi hann þá epter varnínge slnum og let hejmbera,
og var þeim skipud ejn stejnhöll, enn er þeir komu
s þangad þá var þar mirkt, og illa þefad, Sti'gandi s(egi)st
fist vilja innganga, stack hann nidur kröksvidunne,
og fann ad holt var under og var þar tálgróf gior I
e gölfed, og skoted yfer þunnum ski'dum og breiddur
á kógur, si'þan rann hann yfer gröfena, og s(eger) þeim
ad öfært var, Kniitr og Hordur stucku yfer tálgrófena,
9 og var þat vel .xij. álnar, Stigandi krækti med kröks-
svidunne, og kipte *hinum yfer grófena, Hórdr villdi
fist nidr setjast, settest hann nidr vid dir utar og
12 brakade miog vid, framm þriitin voru tiolldin, hann
sette krippuna upp vid þiled og voru þar menn under
med vopnum, og kreiste hann lif fra þeim, so ök hann
i6 sier innar epter höllenne, og so kringum hana, og
brakadi ejnart vid, so ad undrum þötte gegna, enn
stundum skelldi hann herdunum upp á þiled, var
i8 þá teked af glugginum, fundust þá þri'r tiger manna
döder, og var þeim kastad I tálgrófena, og filltu af
10 hiriiun] from 123, 22r, þeim 167, 42v, honum MS.
Sigrgarðr now has his cargo carried to a stone building
which has been assigned to them. When they come to it,
it is dark and evil-smelling. Stígandi says that he will
be the first to enter and probes around with his hooked
spear so that he discovers that a pit has been dug in
the floor and covered over with thin planks and a carpet.
He leaps over the pit and warns the others. It is twelve
ells across but “Knútr” and Hprðr manage to get over
it. Horðr says that he will be the first to sit down. He
sits down by a door. There is a mighty roar and the
wall-hangings bulge out. He sets his hump up against
the wall and it turns out that there are armed men
concealed there but he manages to crush them to death
and repeats the procedure further up along the hall. In
all thirty dead men are revealed afterwards and their