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Heimskringla 3
English for the 1 passage of this work that the Atlas of Ancient Myth, Magic in the Ancient Texts and a study of demons and angels quote or cite, and which the library holds in no published English. The numbers are the edition's own references.
164.12–164.24
oc ſmáſcutor, þa er þeir lágo
and small boats. When they lay
i Solundom þa dreymdi maɴ þaɴ
in Solund, a man dreamed, the one
er var a konongs ſcipino er Gyrðr er
who was on the king's ship, who is
nefndr, hann þóttiz þar vera ſtaddr a
named Gyrd: he seemed to be standing there on
konongs ſcipino oc ſá upp a eyna hvar
the king's ship and saw up on the island where
trǫllkona micil ſtoð, oc hafþi
a great troll-woman stood, and she had
ſcálm i hendi eɴ i aɴarri hendi
a short sword in one hand and in the other hand
trog, hann þottiz oc ſia ifir ǫll ſcip
a trough. He also seemed to see over all
þeiʀa at honom þotti fugl ſitia
their ships, and it seemed to him that a bird sat
a hveriom ſcipſtafni, þat váro allt
on every ship's prow; these were all
ernir oc hrafnar, Trollkonan qvað.
eagles and ravens. The troll-woman spoke:
Viſt er at allvaldr ꜹſtan
Certain it is that the sovereign from the east
eɢiaz veſtr at leɢia
is egged on to set course westward
The whole original: Menota's corpus at Clarino (open AM 63 fol).