‘Hversu es fégjafall, þeim es fold verja,
ítr* ógnflýtir við íþróttarmenn sína?’
‘Hversu es fégjafall, þeim es verja fold, ítr* ógnflýtir við íþróttarmenn sína?’
‘How generous is [he] to those who guard [his] land, the excellent war-hastener [WARRIOR] to his men of skills?’
[4] íþróttarmenn ‘men of skills’: Lit. ‘men of skill, accomplishment’. On metrical grounds, Sueti (1884, 27) and Wisén (1886-9) emend to inndrótt ‘retinue’.