RvHbreiðm Hl 76III/2 — *
Skjǫldr brast skreyttr í hjaldri;
skôrusk randir * brandi;
rít hykk malmar meittu;
mǫrg vôpn … tǫrgur.
Hlífð frák karlmenn kljúfa;
kyn jǫfra skar brynjur;
sungu slǫg við hringa;
sundr brast hjalmr fyr malmi.
Skreyttr skjǫldr brast í hjaldri; randir skôrusk * brandi; hykk malmar meittu rít; mǫrg vôpn … tǫrgur. Frák karlmenn kljúfa hlífð; kyn jǫfra skar brynjur; slǫg sungu við hringa; hjalmr brast sundr fyr malmi.
The adorned shield burst in the battle; shield-rims were cut by the blade; I believe swords sliced the shield; many weapons … targes. I heard that men split the shield; the kinsman of princes [RULER = Magnús] cut byrnies; weapons sang against byrnie-rings; the helmet burst asunder before the sword.
readings
[2] randir *: randir fyr papp25ˣ, R683ˣ
notes
[2] * brandi ‘by the blade’: Brandi is taken as an instr. dat. here. As it stands in the mss, the line is unmetrical, being heptasyllabic with no possibility of elision in metrical position 4. The inclusion of the prep. fyr could have been caused by fyr malmi ‘before the sword’ in l. 8, but the prep. must have been present in Rugman’s exemplar. For skera ‘cut’ with instr. dat., see sts 72/5 and 77/1, 4.