Mǫrk lét veitt fyr verka
vekjandi mér snekkju
(hann lætr hylli sinnar)
hjaldrs (tilgørðir valda).
Vekjandi hjaldrs snekkju lét mér veitt mǫrk fyr verka; hann lætr tilgørðir valda hylli sinnar.
The rouser of the warship’s battle [WARRIOR] had me presented with a mark for my poetry; he lets deserving actions determine his favour.
[1] verka ‘poetry’: Kreutzer (1977, 48) counts this among fourteen instances of verk in this sense, most in the later Christian poetry.