Hjuggu vér með hjörvi.
Heðins kvánar varð auðit,
þá er vér Helsingja heimtum
til heimsala Óðins.
Lögðum upp í Ívu;
oddr náði þá bíta;
öll var unda gjálfri
á sú roðin heitu.
Grenjaði brandr við brynjur
bensildr; klufuz skildir.
Hjuggu vér með hjörvi. Kvánar Heðins varð auðit, þá er vér heimtum Helsingja til heimsala Óðins. Lögðum upp í Ívu; þá náði oddr bíta; öll sú á var roðin heitu gjálfri unda. Brandr grenjaði við brynjur, bensildr; skildir klufuz.
We hewed with the sword. The woman of Heðinn <legendary hero> [= Hildr (hildr ‘battle’)] was at hand when we brought the people of Hälsingland to the dwellings of Óðinn <god> [= Valhǫll]. We proceeded up the Ífa <river>; then the sword-point managed to bite; that whole river was reddened by a hot surge of wounds [BLOOD]. The sword roared on coats of mail, [as did] wound-herrings [ARROWS/SPEARS]; shields were cloven.
[3] Helsingja: ‘helsingin’ LR
[3] Helsingja ‘the people of Hälsingland’: The area in question extended in the Viking Age northwards from the modern province of Hälsingland (located in central Sweden just north of Gästrikland in the south-east of the Norrland region), round the Gulf of Bothnia, and southwards as far as the river Oulu in what is now Finland (Orling 1995, 116-17).