Náði gørr enn glóðum,
Grikklands, jǫfurr handa,
stólþengill gekk strǫngu
steinblindr aðalmeini.
Jǫfurr náði enn gørr glóðum handa; stólþengill Grikklands gekk steinblindr strǫngu aðalmeini.
The prince obtained even more embers of the hands [GOLD]; the emperor of Greece [= Michael Kalaphates] became stone-blind from the violent, major injury.
[3] ‑þengill: þengils Hr
[3] stólþengill ‘emperor’: Lit. ‘chair-’ or ‘throne-lord’. According to Sigfús Blöndal (1978, 3, 177) the term stólþengill (or stólkonungr ‘chair-’ or ‘throne-king’) is the Scandinavian version of Russian stolnyi knyazi ‘great princes’.
case: nom.