Hvítserkr svarar: "Ef ek réða, þá skyldum vér fara til Serklands."
Whiteshirt answers, “If it’s up to me, then we shall go to Serkland.”
Jökull segir, at hann skyldi því ráða, - "tak til ok seg fyrir leiðinni."
Jokull says that it is up to him, “Get going? and tell (us) the way.”
Hann segist svá gera mundu. Gaf þeim síðan vel byri ok kómu við Serkland í
þá
He says he would do so. They got a fair breeze after that and reached
Serkland in that
höfn, er þeir vildu kjósa, fyrir höfuðborg Soldáns konungs. Konungr sendi
til skips, ok
harbor which they wanted to choose, before the capital of King Soldan.
(The) king sent (his men) to (the) ship and
þegar hann vissi, hverir menn at landi váru komnir, gekk hann sjálfr til
strandar.
as soon as he knew what men had come ashore, he went to the beach himself.
Hvítserkr ok Marsibilla runnu í móti honum. Varð þá mikill fagnaðarfundr.
Whiteshirt and Marsibilla ran to meet him. Then a great meeting of welcome
happened.
Konungr bauð Jökli heim með sér til veizlu með alla sína menn, ok þat þáði
hann,
(The) king invited Jokull home with him for a feast with all his men, and he
accepted it,
ganga síðan heim til hallar. Settist konungr í hásæti ok á aðra hönd honum
Jökull,
then went home to (the) hall. (The) king sat in the high seat and on one
side of him, Jokull,
en sonr hans á aðra. Var Jökli þar leitat inna helztu virðinga. Konungr
spyrr Hvítserk,
and his son on the other. Jokull was regarded inside? with the greatest
honour. The king asks Whiteshirt
hvat fram hefði farit um hans ævi, síðan þeir skildu. Hann segir honum allt
sem
what had happened during his life after they parted. He tells him all as
greiniligast ok hversu Jökull hefði hjálpat honum ok hverr afreksmaðr hann
var.
distinctly as possible and how Jokull had helped him and what a hero he was.
Konungr lét vel yfir ok kvað hann vera afbragð flestra manna.
(The) king was please and said him to be a paragon of most men.
Var nú gleði mikil í höllinni ok glaumr ok drukkit fímet ok klaret. Þar var
sungit,
Now (there) was great happiness in the hall and noisy merriment and claret
and something fermented? (wild guess) was drunk. There it was sung
básúnat ok leikit með allra handa hljóðfærum, er fá kunni.
and basooned (scary image) and played with all kinds of musical instruments
that could be known.