Eru til míns fjǫrs margir
menn of sannar deilðir
ór ýmissum ôttum
ósmábornir gjarnir.
En þó vitu þeygi
þeir, áðr mik hafi felldan,
hverr ilþorna arnar
undir hlýtr at standa.
Margir ósmábornir menn ór ýmissum ôttum eru gjarnir til fjǫrs míns of sannar deilðir. En þó vitu þeir þeygi, áðr hafi mik felldan, hverr hlýtr at standa undir ilþorna arnar.
Many high-born men of various families are eager for my life because of justified conflicts. And yet they do not know, before they have killed me, who gets to stand under the sole-thorns [CLAWS] of the eagle.
[2] of sannar deilðir ‘because of justified conflicts’: Sannar deilðir is explained in LP: deild as hvor der ene part virkelig har grund til strid ‘where one party genuinely has grounds for conflict’ (and cf. Fritzner: sannr 3 for this sense of sannr, normally ‘true’). The reading of two of the Orkn mss, of sannar fréttir ‘over accurate news’, makes good sense, but the third ms., Flat, agrees with the Hkr witnesses.