Anon Krm 1VIII/5 — fengu ‘married’
Hjuggu vér með hjörvi.
Hitt var ei fyr löngu,
er á Gautlandi gengum
at grafvitnis morði.
Þá fengu vér Þóru;
þaðan hétu mik fyrðar,
þá er ek lyngölun lagðak,
Loðbrók, at því vígi.
Stakk ek á storðar lykkju
stáli bjartra mála.
Hjuggu vér með hjörvi. Hitt var ei fyr löngu, er gengum at morði grafvitnis á Gautlandi. Þá fengu vér Þóru; fyrðar hétu mik Loðbrók þaðan, þá er ek lagðak lyngölun at því vígi. Ek stakk stáli bjartra mála á lykkju storðar.
We hewed with the sword. It was not long ago when we set about the slaying of the digging-wolf [SNAKE] in Götaland. That was when we married Þóra; people have called me Loðbrók (‘Hairy-breeches’) from the time when I stabbed the heather-fish [SNAKE] to death in that fight. I thrust the blade with bright ornaments at the loop of the earth [SNAKE].
readings
[5] fengu: fengum R702ˣ, LR, R693ˣ
notes
[3, 5] gengum; fengu vér ‘we set about; we married’: These are instances, not infrequent in Krm, of 1st pers. pl. forms (whether of verbs or pronouns) seeming to have singular reference to the speaker of the poem. On the treatment of such instances in the present edn, see the Introduction. Cf. also Helgi Guðmundsson (1972, 34-44) and McTurk (2011a).