Þá var mér ótti einu sinni,
er þeir grenjandi gengu af öskum;
tírarlausir váru tólf saman.
Þá var mér ótti einu sinni, er þeir gengu grenjandi af öskum; tírarlausir váru tólf saman.
Then there was in me a fear on one occasion when they went bellowing from the longships; the inglorious ones were twelve together.
[4] gengu af: útan at R715ˣ
[4] af öskum ‘from the longships’: Askr, lit. ‘ash [wood]’, refers to Oddr’s and Hjálmarr’s ships. This use of askr is not common in Old Norse (cf. LP: 1. askr B. 2) and may be influenced by OE æsc, frequent in poetry for a ship (cf. Jesch 2001a, 135-6; Falk 1912, 87). For askr, see Þul Skipa 1/3III and Note there, and cf. Eskál Vell 4/2I asksǫgn ‘ship’s crew’.