Beatrice La Farge (ed.) 2017, ‘Ketils saga hœngs 3 (Gusi finnakonungr, Lausavísur 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 554.
Gusa kalla mik göfgir Finnar;
em ek oddviti allrar þjóðar.
Göfgir Finnar kalla mik Gusa; ek em {oddviti allrar þjóðar}.
‘Noble Saami call me Gusi; I am the spearhead of the whole people [RULER].’
See Context of Ket 3a.
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Gusa kalla mik
göfgir Finnar;
er ek oddviti
allrar þjóðar.
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