Sprungu eigi aungir
út ór — … sútir —
bæum, þvíað hyrr á hávar
heitr giekk fira sveitir.
Eigi aungir sprungu út ór bæum, þvíað heitr hyrr giekk á hávar sveitir fira; … sútir.
Not none [= all] ran out from the farmsteads, because hot fire spread towards the distinguished groups of men; … sorrows.
[3] hávar: ‘havvi’ W
[3] hávar ‘distinguished’: Lit. ‘high’. The ms.’s ‘havvi’ has been discussed above. Aside from those who interpret this as a form of höfuð ‘head’, all other eds have emended. Skj B, Skald and FoGT 2004 emend (as this edn) to hávar ‘high’. FoGT 1884, 240 emends to heima to give the clause þvít heitr hyrr gekk á heima ‘because hot fire attacked homes’, but this is far from the ms. form.