Mælti gortanni við grenlægju:
‘Hvað skulum vinna vier til þarfa?
Við erum orðin veiklunduð mjög
hryggsnauð harla en halar rotnaðir.’
Gortanni mælti við grenlægju: ‘Hvað skulum vier vinna til þarfa? Við erum orðin mjög veiklunduð, harla hryggsnauð en halar rotnaðir.’
Filth-tooth spoke to the lair-lier [VIXEN]: ‘What should we do for our sustenance? We have become very weak-minded, exceedingly bare on our backs, and our tails have shed their hair.’
[7] hryggsnauð: ‘hrigg, snaud’ Rask87ˣ
[7] hryggsnauð ‘bare on our backs’: Lit. ‘back-bare’. CPB II, 610 suggests ‘shrunk in the back, lean’, but the subsequent reference to hair loss (l. 8) seems to corroborate thin-haired, mangy backs and not ‘lean’.