Slóttu við meyjar málþing, Sæólfr,
meðan loga létum leika of kynnum.
Unnum harðan Hadding drepinn,
ok Ölvi var aldrs um synjat.
Slóttu málþing við meyjar, Sæólfr, meðan létum loga leika of kynnum. Unnum harðan Hadding drepinn, ok Ölvi var um synjat aldrs.
You carried on assignations with girls, Sjólfr, while we made flames play around families. We killed the hardy Haddingr and Ǫlvir was deprived of life.
[2] Sæólfr ‘Sjólfr’: The older, disyllabic form of the name is required here for metrical reasons in a Type A2k-line (cf. Gade 1995a, 117-23).