Sessunautar ok sifjungar,
afspringr es þá ok ættstuðill;
þá es ráðunautr ok ráðgjafi,
þjónar ok þrælar, þírr, ǫnnungar,
verkmenn, kefsar ok vílmegir.
Sessunautar ok sifjungar, afspringr es þá ok ættstuðill; þá es ráðunautr ok ráðgjafi, þjónar ok þrælar, þírr, ǫnnungar, verkmenn, kefsar ok vílmegir.
Bench-partners and affines, offspring is next and family-pillar; then there is counsel-sharer and counsellor, servants and slaves, serf, labourers, workmen, captives and sons of toil.
[10] ok vílmegir: om. R, Tˣ, C
[10] vílmegir ‘sons of toil’: Pl. of vílmǫgr, lit. ‘son of toil, bondsman’ (from víl ‘n. misery, wretchedness’ and mǫgr m. ‘son’). In Skm (SnE 1998, I, 106), this word is listed among pejorative terms, antonyms of various words for ‘hero’, and it is otherwise not attested in prose. See also Anon Bjark 1/3 and Note there.