Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 48 (Eysteinn konungr, Útsteinskviða 1)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 342.
Sjálft mun letja slíks at freista;
Hálfs eru rekkar hverjum meiri.
Þik veit ek manna miklu fremstan,
einn snjallastan, er þú átta vátt.
Sjálft mun letja at freista slíks; rekkar Hálfs eru meiri hverjum. Ek veit þik miklu fremstan manna, einn snjallastan, er þú vátt átta.
‘It is self-evidently futile to try such a thing; Hálfr’s champions are superior to everyone. I know you [to be] by far the foremost of men, one of the most valiant, because you slew eight men. ’
This stanza is introduced by the words: Eysteinn kvað ‘Eysteinn said’.
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Sialft man letía sliks at freista halfs eru ʀ ǀ ekar huerium meírí þig ueít eg manna miklu fremstan einn sníallan er þu ǀ atta uott
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