Hôkun, vitum hvergi
(hafizk hefr runnr af gunni)
fremra jarl und ferli
(folk-Ránar) þér mána.
Þú hefr ǫðlinga Óðni
— etr hrafn af ná getnum —
— vesa mátt af því, vísi,
víðlendr — níu senda.
Hôkun, vitum hvergi jarl fremra þér und ferli mána; runnr folk-Ránar hefr hafizk af gunni. Þú hefr senda Óðni níu ǫðlinga; hrafn etr af getnum ná; vísi, mátt af því vesa víðlendr.
Hákon, we [I] do not know of a jarl anywhere more outstanding than you beneath the track of the moon [SKY]; the tree of the battle-Rán <goddess> [VALKYRIE > WARRIOR = Hákon] has made himself eminent by warfare. You have sent nine nobles to Óðinn; the raven eats from provided corpses; prince, because of that you can spread your dominion widely.
[1] Hôkun: Hôkuni 53, 54, Flat
[1] Hôkun ‘Hákon’: The variant Hôkuni ‘than Hákon’ is an unmetrical secondary reading (see Hjelmqvist 1890, 286-7), perhaps arising because Hôkun, rather than þér in l. 4 (cf. þar ‘there’ 54, Bb), was taken as the dat. governed by the comp. fremra ‘more outstanding’.