‘Kalla mun Kónan Káðvaládrus
ok skilfinga* Skotlandi af.
Rýkr af grimmu Gǫndlar éli;
verðr it mikla malmþing háit.
‘Káðvaládrus mun kalla Kónan ok skilfinga* af Skotlandi. Rýkr af grimmu éli Gǫndlar; it mikla malmþing verðr háit.
‘Cadwallader will summon Conan and kings from Scotland. Smoke will rise from the savage storm of Gǫndul <valkyrie> [BATTLE]; the great metal-encounter [BATTLE] will be waged.
[2] Káðvaládrus: Káðvaladría Hb
[2] Káðvaládrus ‘Cadwallader’: Emended in Bret 1848-9 (followed by subsequent eds) from ms. Káðvaladría (not refreshed); the spelling perhaps results from a misunderstanding of this word as a national instead of a pers. n. Bret 1848-9 appears to make Kónan the subject and Káðvaladrús the object, but this, if not simply an artifact of word inversion, deviates unnecessarily from Geoffrey’s text.