Seggir þurfut ala ugg
— engu snýk í Viðurs feng
háði; kunnum hróðrsmíð
haga — of minn brag.
Seggir þurfut ala ugg of brag minn; snýk engu háði í feng Viðurs; kunnum haga hróðrsmíð.
Men need not harbour anxiety about my poem; I incorporate no satire in the theft of Viðurr <= Óðinn> [POEM]; we [I] know how to fashion a work of praise.
[2] snýk (‘sny ec’): so W, U, B, snýr ek R, Tˣ
[2] snýk ‘I incorporate’: The reading snýr may be merely a later form of sný, the expected 1st pers. sg. pres. indic. of the verb snúa (SnE 1998, I, 136; ANG §531.1).