Lítt varði mik laga þeira,
at †mik manns einskis ofyr kvæði†,
þá er mik til kappa kuru Húnmegir
átta sinnum fyr jöfurs ríki.
Lítt varði mik laga þeira, at †mik manns einskis ofyr kvæði†, þá er Húnmegir kuru mik átta sinnum til kappa fyr ríki jöfurs.
I little expected of their laws that …, when the Huns chose me for contests eight times before the king’s realm.
[All]: In both the saga prose (ch. 8) and Saxo it is stated that Ásmundr (called Haldanus by Saxo) takes on an ever-increasing number of Hildibrandr’s men in a series of single combats (from one to eleven men at a time) over a period of eight days. It is this act of prowess that persuades Hildibrandr to fight Ásmundr himself, even though he knows the latter is his half-brother. This incident is also the subject of the following three stanzas.