Hirð viðr grams með gerðum
gollvǫrpuðr sér holla.
Gollvǫrpuðr viðr hirð grams holla sér með gerðum.
The gold-flinger [GENEROUS MAN] obtains the loyalty of the lord’s retinue with [gifts of] war-gear.
[1] grams ‘the lord’s’: Skj B assigns this word to a preceding, missing line, which is unnecessary (see NN §878). It is not clear who this ruler (gramr) is, but it is possible that the couplet refers to Haraldr harðráði ‘Hard-rule’ Sigurðarson’s men defecting to Sveinn Úlfsson of Denmark prior to the battle of the river Nissan (Niz) in 1062 (see ÞjóðA Sex 12II). — [1, 2] viðr hirð grams holla sér ‘obtains the loyalty of the lord’s retinue’: Lit. ‘makes the lord’s retinue loyal to himself’.