Ok †sifuna† síðan
sverðs liðhat*ar gerðu
hlífar borðs við Hǫrða
harðgleypnis dyn barða,
áðr hylriðar hæði
hrjóðendr fjǫru þjóðar
við skyld-Breta skytju
skálleik Heðins reikar.
Ok síðan gerðu †sifuna† sverðs liðhat*ar dyn harðgleypnis borðs hlífar við Hǫrða barða, áðr hylriðar, hrjóðendr þjóðar fjǫru, hæði Heðins reikar skálleik við skyld-Breta skytju.
And afterwards the … haters of the help of the sword [= Þórr and Þjálfi] held a din of the harsh swallower of the board of defence [SHIELD > SWORD > BATTLE] against the Hǫrðar of precipices [GIANTS], before the pool-steppers [= Þórr and Þjálfi], the destroyers of the people of the shore [GIANTS], could engage in the game of the bowl of the hair-parting [HAT] of Heðinn <legendary hero> [(lit. ‘bowl-game of the hair-parting of Heðinn’) HELMET > BATTLE] against the kin-Britons of the markswoman [= Skaði] [GIANTS].
[5] hæði: heiði all
[5] hæði ‘could engage’: Sveinbjörn Egilsson’s (1851, 8, 20) suggested emendation of the mss’ heiði to hæði, 3rd pers. pl. pret. subj. of heyja, has been adopted by all eds, because this is the only word in the helmingr that can function as the finite verb of the clause.