Hubert Seelow (ed.) 2017, ‘Hálfs saga ok Hálfsrekka 58 (Hrókr inn svarti, Hrókskviða 8)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 350.
Skyldi ekki stynja, þó at stór hlyti
sár í sóknum, siklings vinir,
né benjar sér binda láta,
fyrr en annars dags jafnlengð kæmi.
Vinir siklings skyldi ekki stynja, þó at hlyti stór sár í sóknum, né láta sér binda benjar, fyrr en jafnlengð annars dags kæmi.
‘The friends of the king should not moan, even if they received great wounds in combat, nor have their wounds dressed, before the same time of the following day arrived. ’
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Skylldi ecki stynía þo at st ǀ or hlytí sar j soknum siklings uíner ne beniar ser binda lata fyr ǀ eɴ annars dags jafnn leíngd kæmí
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