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Fæddr var ek thar alma
Upplendingar bendu.
Nu læt ek vid sker skolla
Skeidr bummonum leidar.
Vitt hefi ek sizt ytum
Eigard skotid bardi
Tho lætr gerdr i gordum
Gollbrings vid mer skolla.




THE ISLANDIC ORIGINAL of the VERSES quoted pag. 10.

—Bith ofur capp
Austur konga,
Sigars io,
Er eynar Yngva,
Menglaututh
Bith meith reitho.

Oc nareithur
A nese druther,
Binga meithur,
Thar er vikur deilir:
Thar er Fiolkunnur,
Um fylkis hror,
Steine merktur,
Straumeyiar nes.

Snorro Sturls. Hist. p. 28.



THE ISLANDIC ORIGINAL of the VERSES quoted pag. 80.

Tafl em ek aurr at efla,
Ithrottir kann ek niu,
Tyni ek tradla runum,
Tid er mer bok, ok smider,
Skrida kann ek a skidum,
Skyt ek, ok ræ suo nytir,
Huortveggia kann ek hyggiu
Harpslatt ok brag thatta.

Ol. Wor. Lit. Run. p. 129. Barth. Caus. &c. p. 420.