Hér höfum fellt til foldar
tírarlausa tólf berserki.
Þó var Sørkvir þróttrammastr
þeira seggja en Þröstr annarr.
Hér höfum fellt tólf tírarlausa berserki til foldar. Þó var Sørkvir þróttrammastr þeira seggja, en Þröstr annarr.
Here we have felled twelve inglorious berserks to the ground. Yet Sørkvir was the most powerful in strength of those men, and Þrǫstr was the second.
[3] tírar‑: ‘[…]’ 471
[3-4] tólf tírarlausa berserki ‘twelve inglorious berserks’: The words tírarlausir and tólf also alliterate with one another in two stanzas from Ǫrv, Ǫrv 8/7-8 and Ǫrv 9/2-3, where they also refer to twelve berserks in a similar episode (see Introduction above).