Droplaugarsona saga

verki þessu. Finngeirr gaf Grími búit, þat er hann varðveitti,

this deed. Finngeir gave Grim the farm that he had been managing,

með ǫllum fjárhlutum, landi ok kvikfé. Sár Gríms varð

with all its goods, land and livestock. Grim's wound went

illa, ok blés upp fótinn. Þat var einn aftan, er þar kom

badly, and his leg swelled up. One evening there came

kona. ok lézk vera lǽknir. Hon bað at binda um sár

a woman, who said she was a healer. She asked to bind up the wound

Gríms, ok þat var, at hon batt um. ok hvarf á brott. Lítlu

of Grim, and so it was that she bound it, and vanished away. A little

síðar kom blástr í fót Gríms. ok allt upp í kviðinn

later a swelling came into Grim's leg, all the way up into the belly.

. Var þá farit eftir presti, ok tók hann þjónustu

Then a priest was sent for, and he received the last rites

ok andaðisk síðan. En þessi kona hét Gefjun.

and then died. And this woman was called Gefjun

in fjǫlkunnga. ok hafði verit friðla Gauss.

the Sorceress, and had been Gaus's mistress.

Vetr þessi leið af. Ok um várit keypti Finngeirr

That winter passed. And in the spring Finngeir bought

skip til handa Helgu, ok fór hon út til Íslands með

a ship for Helga, and she went out to Iceland with