‘Jésúm tígna eingla rásir
upp og niðr af himni þriðja;
stjörnuljós og færðar fórnir,
friðar samband á hverju landi,
slík afla mier sóttarauka,
sönn stórmerkin veitt hjá mönnum;
kvíðig, að hans remming ráða
ríði mier að báðum síðum.
‘Rásir eingla tígna Jésúm upp og niðr af þriðja himni; stjörnuljós og færðar fórnir, samband friðar á hverju landi, slík sönn stórmerkin veitt hjá mönnum afla mier sóttarauka; kvíðig, að remming ráða hans ríði mier að báðum síðum.
‘Hosts of angels honour Jesus [travelling] up and down from the third heaven; starlight and presented offerings, union of peace in every land, such true signs granted among men cause me an increase of woe; I fear that his strengthening through counsels will press me from all [lit. both] sides.
[2] himni: heimi 99a, 622, Vb, 41 8°ˣ, 705ˣ
[2] þriðja himni ‘from the third heaven’: So Bb, but other mss have heimi þriðja ‘from the third world’, a reading adopted by Skj B and Skald. Perhaps an allusion to 2 Cor. XII.2, where S. Paul tells that he was taken up into the third heaven. See Note on 11/3 and cf. 27/4. The poet envisions a three-tiered cosmology: the sphere of air and nature surrounding the earth, the sphere of ether, the realm of angels, beyond it, and the third sphere, the abode of God.