Þá vas lofðungr Lúfa kallaðr
es í fylkis l... ...kar óxu.
Ávallt vas kallaðr með konungs nafni
Haraldr hárfagri hilmir síðan.
Lofðungr vas kallaðr Lúfa, þá es ...kar óxu í l... fylkis. Ávallt síðan vas hilmir kallaðr Haraldr hárfagri, með nafni konungs.
The ruler was called Lúfa (‘Shaggy-locks’) when ... grew in the leader’s ... Ever afterwards the prince was called Haraldr hárfagri (‘Fair-hair’), with the title of king.
[3] l...: A possible restoration would be lyrg (m. nom. sg. lyrgr), a rare word meaning ‘forelock’. Though not entirely convincing, this seems the least implausible of the various possibilities permitted by metre, alliteration, semantics and context. Bugge (1871a, 519) supplies lô ‘wave’. In prose, lô denotes ‘the line of shoal water along the shore’ (CVC: lá), but in verse it takes on the meaning ‘wave’. It is nowhere else used to refer to hair.