Heimskr þykki mér, sá er heðra ferr,
maðr einn saman myrkvar grímur.
Hyrr er á sveimun; haugar opnaz;
brennr fold ok fen; förum harðara.
Þykki mér heimskr, sá er ferr heðra, maðr einn saman myrkvar grímur. Hyrr er á sveimun; haugar opnaz; brennr fold ok fen; förum harðara.
He seems to me foolish, that one who travels here, the man alone in the murky night. Fire is flickering; mounds open; the earth burns, and the fen; let us go faster.
[6] haugar opnaz ‘mounds open’: I.e. the burial mounds of Angantýr and his brothers. See Angantýr Lv 1 (Heiðr 29), Note to [All]. This line is also found in Angantýr Lv 3/2 (Heiðr 32), in a stanza which also mentions the fires burning on the island and warns Hervǫr to return to her ships.