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Hrólfs saga kraka — chs 34-35 §34.3

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Bǫðvarr þrífr til hans ok hnykkir honum upp ór beinahrúgunni. Hǫttr kvað þá hátt við ok mælti: ‘Nú viltu bana mér! Gør eigi þetta, svá sem ek hefi nú vel um búizk, en þú hefr nú rofit í sundr skjaldborg mína, ok hafða ek nú gǫrt hana svá háva útan at mér, at hon hefr hlíft mér við ǫllum hǫggum ykkar, svá at ekkert hǫgg hefir komit á mik lengi, en ekki var hon þó enn svá búin sem ek ætlaða hon skyldi vera.’ 

Bǫðvarr grabs at him and pulls him up out of the bone pile. Hǫttr then cried loudly at that and said, ‘Now you want to have me killed! Do n’t do that, just as I have now [¤] finished[¤], but you have now broken my shield-wall apart, and I had now made it so high around [¤] me, that it has protected me against all your blows, such that no blow has reached [¤] me for a long time, but it was still not yet as finished as I wanted it to be.’  

34.2Hrólfs saga kraka — chs 34-35Start again 34.4

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