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Hrólfs saga kraka — chs 34-35 §35.1

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Ok sem leið at jólum, gørðusk menn þar ókátir. Bǫðvarr spurði Hǫtt hverju þat sætti; hann sagði honum at dýr eitt hafi komit þar tvá vetr í samt, mikit ok ógurligt. ‘Ok hefr vængi á bakinu ok flýgr jafnan. Tvau haust hefr þat nú hingat vitjat ok gǫrt mikinn skaða. Á þat bíta ekki vápn, en kappar konungs koma ekki heim, þeir sem eru einna mestir.’ 

And when Yule drew near men became gloomy there. Bǫðvarr asked Hǫttr what caused that [dejection]; he told him that a beast had come there for two winters in a row, huge and monstrous. ‘And [it] has wings on its back and normally flies. For two autumns now it has visited here and caused great harm. No weapon [can] bite into it and the king’s champions, [even] those who are the greatestof them, do not come home.’

34.14Hrólfs saga kraka — chs 34-35Start again 35.2

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