Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 27 (Forað, Lausavísur 6)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 579.
Flaug ok Fífu hugða ek fjarri vera,
ok hræðumz ek ei Hremsu bit.
Ek hugða Flaug ok Fífu vera fjarri, ok hræðumz ek ei bit Hremsu.
‘I thought Flaug and Fífa were far away, and I do not fear Hremsa’s bite.’
Forað replies to Ketill’s reference to his weapons in the previous stanza by saying that she thought his arrows were far away. The stanza is introduced with the words: Hún kveðr vísu ‘She speaks a stanza’. Ketill shoots an arrow and wounds her fatally, although she has attempted to escape by assuming the shape of a whale and diving into the sea.
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Flaug ok Fífu
hygg ek þér fjarri vera,
hræðumz ek ei Hremsu bit.
flaug og fýffu hugda eg firre eýda | og hræddunst eg eý hremsubit ,
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