Hrólfs saga kraka — chs 34-35 §34.7

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Hirðmenn hafa nú sama vanða ok kasta fyrst smám beinum um þvert golfit til Bǫðvars ok Hattar. Bǫðvarr lætr sem hann sjái eigi þetta. Hǫttr er svá hræddr, at hann tekr eigi á mat né drykk, ok þykir honum þá ok þá sem hann muni vera lostinn. Ok nú mælti Hǫttr til Bǫðvars: ‘Bokki sæll, nú ferr at þér stór knúta, ok mun þetta ætlat okkr til nauða.’

The retainers have the same habit again and at first they throw small bones along the floor at Bǫðvarr and Hǫttr. Bǫðvarr lets on as if he doesn’t see it. Hǫttr is so afraid that he doesn’t have [¤] any food or drink, and it seems to him at every moment as if he must get hit. And now Hǫttr said to Bǫðvarr: ‘Good man, now a big knuckle-bone is coming towards you, and it must be intended as harm for us.’

34.6 Hrólfs saga kraka — chs 34-35 Start again 34.8

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Hrólfs saga kraka — chs 34-35 §34.7

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