Sté fyrir húf hesti
hrófs inn þrekmesti
gœðir gunnskára;
gladdisk naðr sára.
Niðr kom bens bára;
Búi nam sér hvára
— ferð hykk friðar misstu —
frœkn í hǫnd kistu.
Inn þrekmesti gœðir gunnskára sté fyrir húf hesti hrófs; naðr sára gladdisk. Bára bens kom niðr; frœkn Búi nam kistu í hvára hǫnd sér; hykk ferð misstu friðar.
The most powerful endower of battle-gulls [RAVENS/EAGLES > WARRIOR] leapt from the hull of the horse of the boat-shed [SHIP]; the snake of wounds [SWORD] was gladdened. The wave of the wound [BLOOD] poured down; the valiant Búi took a chest in each of his hands; I think men missed out on peace.
[6] sér ‘his’: Dat. sg. of the refl. 3rd pers. pron. This is taken here as a poss. with l. 8 hǫnd ‘hand’. Skj B instead reads (in prose order) nam sér kistu í hvára hǫnd ‘he seized for himself a chest in each hand’. An additional sér follows hǫnd in 53, 54, Bb, but it adds a syllable that is surplus to the metre’s requirements and is omitted in 61.