[4-8]: These ll. follow quite closely the Empress’s speech to Maxentius in the prose text (Unger 1877, I, 417; Wolf 2003, 137): Heyrit, herra keisari, hvat ilt gerði ein litil mær ydru riki, eða skal hun giallda giætzku sinnar fra þer ok tyna þar fyrir dyrd sinnar fegrdar? ‘Listen, Lord Emperor, what harm has a little maiden done to your kingdom, or must she pay for her goodness because of you and lose therefore the glory of her beauty?’.