Mey veit ek Heiðreks, …
systur þína, svigna til jarðar.
Hafa Húnar hana felda,
ok marga aðra yðra þegna.
Ek veit mey Heiðreks, … systur þína, svigna til jarðar. Húnar hafa felda hana, ok marga aðra þegna yðra.
I know Heiðrekr’s girl, … your sister, to have sunk to the earth. The Huns have felled her, and many others of your men.
[4] svigna: ‘singna’ R715ˣ
[4] svigna ‘to have sunk’: Lit. ‘sunk’. Svigna is an inflected (f. acc. sg.) p. p. of the first class strong verb *svíga ‘sink’, which is only attested in the p. p. The construction is acc.-inf.