Mjǫk eru mínir rekkar
til mjǫðgjarnir, fornir
ok hér komnir hárir;
hví eruð ævar margir?
Rekkar mínir, hér komnir fornir ok hárir, eru mjǫk til mjǫðgjarnir; hví eruð ævar margir?
My warriors, having come here aged and grizzled, are far too mead-loving; why are you so very many?
[2] fornir: bornir Kˣ
[2] fornir ‘aged’: The word is not commonly applied to humans, but as the reading of F, J1ˣ and J2ˣ it is supported from both branches of the Hkr stemma. Hkr 1991 prefers the reading bornir of Kˣ, though this, too, is not free of semantic problems, as the interpretation offered is ‘My men who have come here are born much too fond of mead, and hoary’.