Mitts of mœti
mart lag bragar
áðr ókveðit
oddbraks spakan.
Hlýtr grams geta
greppr óhneppra
skýrr skrautfara.
Skjǫldunga ungr.
Mart bragarlag mitt of spakan mœti oddbraks [e]s áðr ókveðit. Skýrr greppr hlýtr geta óhneppra skrautfara grams. … Ungr skjǫldunga …
Many a poetic metre of mine about the wise encounterer of the point-crash [BATTLE > WARRIOR = Skúli] has never been used before. The intelligent poet [I] must report on the not meagre splendour-expeditions of the ruler. … Young of lords …
[2] bragarlag ‘poetic metre’: For a similar cpd, see drôpulag ‘drápa metre’, GunnlI Sigdr 2/4V (Gunnl 8). In the present stanza, the reverse order of the elements was necessitated by the metre (to avoid resolution on bragar-).