Inn forni fjandi tók undraz fæddan mann, er var bannað skilja, og þvílíkt sem andinn segði slík orðin af tungu forðum: ‘Mier þykki, sem nökkur nýjung nálgiz heim og {ættir beima}; drottinn mun dikta eitthvað klókt; eg em duldr, því að ferr af huldu.

The old fiend was amazed at the newborn man, whom he was prohibited from understanding, and it was as if the spirit spoke words like these with his tongue long ago: ‘It seems to me that some new thing draws near to the world and {families of men} [MANKIND]; the Lord will be devising something clever; I am ignorant, because it is being kept secret.