‘Hann munu tígna tungur lýða;
sá mun gramr vera gumnum tíðastr.
Ey mun uppi ǫðlings frami
ok hans hróðr fara með himinskautum.
‘Tungur lýða munu tígna hann; sá gramr mun vera tíðastr gumnum. Frami ǫðlings mun ey uppi ok hróðr hans fara með himinskautum.
‘The tongues of men will honour him; that king will be the most renowned among men. The lord’s prowess will always be remembered and his glory will travel to the corners of heaven.
[1] tígna ‘honour’: This verb, along with its cognates tíginn ‘revered, honoured’ and tígn ‘honour’, is distinctive of late religious poetry (LP: tígna); similarly in prose, attestations are most frequent in learned texts (ONP: tígna).