Þá voru burtu börn skaufhala
flestöll farin ór föðurgarði.
Þó voru eftir þeim til fylgdar
þrír yrmlingar og þeira dóttir.
Þá voru flestöll börn skaufhala farin burtu ór föðurgarði. Þó voru þrír yrmlingar og dóttir þeira eftir til fylgdar þeim.
Then almost all of Tassel-tail’s children had gone away from their father’s dwelling. Yet three small vermin and their daughter were left as company for them.
[7] yrmlingar: ‘Jrmlingar’ Rask87ˣ
[7] yrmlingar ‘small vermin’: Lit. ‘small snakes’, i.e. the fox-cubs (so Kölbing 1876, CPB and Jón Þorkelsson 1888; 1922-7). Páll Eggert Ólason (1947) emends to yrðlingar ‘fox-cubs’ (see also CPB II, 610), which has no support in the mss.