Várum allir vestr með Skolla;
þar at landi sat lýða dróttinn.
Báru bragnar blóðgar undir,
sverðum skornar, en vér sigr höfðum.
Várum allir vestr með Skolla; þar sat dróttinn lýða at landi. Bragnar báru blóðgar undir, skornar sverðum, en vér höfðum sigr.
We were all in the west with Skolli; there the lord of men [RULER = Játmundr] ruled over the land. Warriors bore bloody wounds, cut with swords, but we had the victory.
[2] vestr með Skolla ‘in the west with Skolli’: Exactly the same line is at Ǫrv 44/6. According to the prose saga Oddr and Hjálmarr encounter Skolli off the coast of Northumberland, where he had sixty ships. Although Oddr at first intends to fight Skolli, he ends up making common cause with him in the latter’s bid to restore his rule of a kingdom which another English king had stolen from him. On the name Skolli see Ǫrv 44, Note to l. 6.