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göfuga sveina, ehr nu leitad um þorp og kauptun,
merkur og dali, fiöll og skooga, og friettest huorge
3 til sveinanna, og þotti þetta mikil undur, og vard
nu so bued ad standa, sat nu k(ongs)d(otter) j synum
kastala og hennar mödir med so mikillj sorg og
e ángre ad Valh(randur) þordi ei syn erendi upp ad
bera til samfara vid fruna, verdur nu svikarenn ad
sitja um kirt og stíjra rijkjum.
9 17. Nu skal víjkia sógunne til Einglands at Vall-
dimar k(ongur) spir burthvarf sinna sonar sona ehr
fruenn Florida hafdi fædt, þottest hann þegar vita
12 ad svikarenn Valb(randur) mundi þa mirt hafa,
hvaraf kongur fær mikinn harm, og mest fyrir þa
skulld, ad hann treistist eckj ad hefna a svikaranum,
15 sakir fiólkyngis og so hardfeingis, so hann situr
laungum hhödur i sinni höll, Eirn dag sem k(ongur)
sat mióg dapur j sinni höll geingur madur i hollena
ís ad liktum dirum, þessi madur var raudur a haar
og hörunds lit, líjtill vegsti, þickleitur, og mióg
kviklatur, hann gieck fyrir k(ong) og m(ælti) “Gud
2i giæti ydar herra og ydar rijkis og giefe ydur glede
19 þickleitur] þeckilegur 522, 41v.
monsters must have carried off the boys. A search is
made in all directions but in vain. Because of her great
grief, Valbrandr does not dare to mention marriage to
Florida.
17. As soon as King Valdimar in England hears what
has happened, he does not doubt but that it is Valbrandr
who has murdered the two boys but because of Val-
brandr’s magic arts and strength he has no possibility
of taking vengeance on him. One day when he is sitting
gloomily in his hall, there enters through closed doors
a little, fat, lively man, red-haired and red-faced. He
comes up to him and expresses the wish that God may
protect him and his realm and comfort him in the sorrow