Rekkr með reiðiþokka
rjóðr anzaði fljóði:
‘Legg þú niðr, in leiða,
lygð á mig til blygðar;
brims ætla eg bríma
brík að fastna ríka,
en fielausa fýsaz
faldreið skal eg aldri.’
Rjóðr rekkr anzaði fljóði með reiðiþokka: ‘Legg þú niðr, in leiða, lygð á mig til blygðar; eg ætla að fastna ríka brík bríma brims, en fielausa faldreið skal eg aldri fýsaz.’
The red-faced champion answered the woman with a wrathful mind: ‘Cease, loathsome one, the lie about me to shame me [lit. for shame]; I intend to be engaged to a rich plank of the fire of the ocean [GOLD > WOMAN], and a penniless headdress-chariot [WOMAN] I shall never desire.’
[8] skal eg aldri ‘I shall never’: The 713 reading, skal eg þig aldri [fýsaz] ‘I shall never (desire) you’, is possible, but the pron. þig ‘you’ must have been inserted in 713 to provide the missing syllable (fald ‘head-dress’ rather than faldreið ‘headdress-chariot’; so 721).