Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 49 (Útsteinn Gunnlaðarson, Útsteinskviða 8)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 343.
Alla mundak Eysteins liða
sverði beita at sömu hófi,
ef ek mér þarfir þess verks sæi,
eða ilt með oss áðr um væri.
Mundak beita alla liða Eysteins sverði at sömu hófi, ef ek sæi mér þarfir þess verks, eða um væri ilt með oss áðr.
‘I would strike all the followers of Eysteinn with a sword in the same way, if I saw need for such an action or there had been hostility between us before. ’
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alla munda eg eysteins lida suerdi beíta at saumu ǀ hỏfí ef eg mer þarfuer þess uerks sǽi eda illt med oss adr um uærí
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