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Drótt gekk sýnt á sættir, en þar fellu þrír svellendr andvǫku randar fyr þolli svells þremja, áðr Snorri, kynfrǫmuðr kvánar hreggs kœmi griðum við seggi; þat forráð fyrða gerðisk frægt.

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 The band clearly went back on the agreement, and three swellers of shields’ wakefulness [> battle > warriors] fell there in the face of the fir-tree of the ice of sword-edge [> blade > warrior], before Snorri, promoter of the giant-wife’s wolf-kin [> warrior], brought men to a truce; such leadership of warriors became famous.

texts: ‹Eb 2› (ch. 17)

editions: Skj Oddr Breiðfirðingr: Illugadrápa 2 (AI, 154; BI, 146); Skald I, 80, NN §§472, 2910C; Eb 1864, 20, 131, Eb 1897, 47, ÍF 4, 31 (Eb ch. 17), Eb 2003, 44-5; Konráð Gíslason 1892, 20.

sources

AM 448 4°x (448x)	31, 14 - 31, 21	(Eb)
AM 126 folx (126x)	74r, 31 - 74r, 35	(Eb)
AM 442 4°x (442x)	25, 2 - 25, 6	(Eb)
AM 309 4° (309)	36ra, 1 - 36ra, 3 [2-8]	(Eb)
AM 446 4°x (446x)	10r - 10r	(Eb)
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