Færðum seggi frá svikaráðum
ok trégoðum tynda ek þeira.
Barða ek Bjálka í borghliði
eikikylfu, áðr hann önd um lét.
Færðum seggi frá svikaráðum ok ek tynda trégoðum þeira. Ek barða Bjálka eikikylfu í borghliði, áðr hann um lét önd.
We [I] turned men away from a deceitful state of life and I destroyed their wooden gods. I hit Bjálki with an oaken club in the fortress gateway before he gave up the ghost.
[8] um: so 343a, 471, of 7, om. 173ˣ
[8] um lét ‘gave up’: The reading of mss 343a and 471 has been selected here to conform to Old Norse usage of the period after 1250. Ms. 7’s use of the archaic pleonastic particle of with the verb lét ‘gave up’ indicates that its scribe may have used an earlier exemplar. See also Note to Ǫrv 4/1.