Gekk skarpr Þórðr fyr skjöldu fram,
hvargi er orrostu eiga skyldum.
Hann lét Hálfdan hníga at velli,
fræknan stilli, ok hans fylgjara.
Skarpr Þórðr gekk fram fyr skjöldu, hvargi er skyldum eiga orrostu. Hann lét Hálfdan hníga at velli, fræknan stilli, ok hans fylgjara.
Strong Þórðr went forwards in front of the shields, wherever we had to fight a battle. He made Hálfdan fall to the ground, that brave leader, together with his followers.
[1] Þórðr: so all others, Þórð 7
[All]: Boer (Ǫrv 1892, 84 n.) argued that all the final stanzas of Oddr’s mannjafnaðr (Ǫrv 54-8) were originally part of an Ævdr earlier than that preserved in the younger mss. It is certainly true that all except the last (and that perfunctorily) lack the challenges and insults directed to the speaker’s rivals that are typical of the mannjafnaðr.