Eik slǫng und þér, yngvi
ógnblíðr, í haf síðan
— rétt vas yðr of ætlat
óðal — frá Svíþjóðu.
Hýnd bar rif, þars rennduð
rétt á stag fyr slétta,
skeið, en skelkðuð brúðir,
Skáney, Dǫnum nánar.
Síðan slǫng eik und þér í haf frá Svíþjóðu, ógnblíðr yngvi; rétt óðal vas of ætlat yðr. Skeið bar hýnd rif, þars rennduð rétt á stag fyr slétta Skáney, en skelkðuð brúðir nánar Dǫnum.
Then the oak-ship sped beneath you into the ocean away from Sweden, battle-rejoicing lord; lawful inheritance awaited you. The warship carried a sail hoisted high where you scudded straight ahead past flat Skåne, and you scared women closely related to the Danes.
[5] rennduð: reynduð 39, E, renndu FskBˣ, FskAˣ, renndi Mork, H, Hr, ‘reyðí’ Flat
[5] rennduð (2nd pers. pl. pret. indic.) ‘you scudded’: The FskBˣ variant renndu (3rd pers. pl. pret. indic.) takes skeiðr (f. nom. pl.) ‘warships’ (l. 7) as the subject (‘where the warships scudded’), which leaves bar hýnd rif ‘(it) carried a sail hoisted high’ (l. 5) as an awkward impersonal construction. Renndi (3rd pers. sg. pret. indic.) (so Mork, H, Hr) is ungrammatical unless skeiðr (f. nom. pl.) is emended to the sg. skeið: skeið bar hýnd rif, þars renndi ‘the warship carried a sail hoisted high where it scudded’.