Bað ekki hann í her höptu* græta,
né manns konu mein at vinna.
Mey bað hann hverja mundi kaupa,
fögru gulli, at föður ráði.
Hann bað ekki græta höptu* í her, né at vinna konu manns mein. Hann bað kaupa hverja mey mundi, fögru gulli, at ráði föður.
He forbade [men] to make a female captive in the army weep nor to do harm to a man’s wife. He ordered every girl to be bought for a bride-price, for fine gold, with the consent of her father.
[1] bað ekki ‘forbade’: Earlier eds (Edd. Min., Skj B, Skald) have replaced this and other verbs negated with ekki ‘not’ with the suffixed negative particle –at, here baðat.