Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 54 (Hrókr inn svarti, Hrókskviða 4)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 348.
Höfðu vér allir haukmanna lið,
hvar sem fróðhugaðr frama kostaði.
Gengum vér í gegnum með grá hjálma
fullstór öll fóstrlönd níu.
Höfðu[m] vér allir lið haukmanna, hvar sem fróðhugaðr kostaði frama. Vér gengum með grá hjálma í gegnum öll níu fullstór fóstrlönd.
‘We all had a host of hawk-like men, wherever the wise-minded one tried his luck. We went with grey helmets through all nine vast homelands. ’
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Hofdu uæ̋r aller hauk manna lid huar sem frod hugadur fra ǀ ma kostadi gengum uæ̋r j gegnum med gra hialma full stor oll ǀ fostur laund níu
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