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.
[All]: Stanza 54 seems to refer to the same viking named Hálfdan who was alluded to in Ǫrv 48/3 (see Note to [All] to this stanza for references to the prose text). However, Oddr’s blood-brother Þórðr stafngláma ‘Prow-gleam’, whom he does not meet until after Hálfdan’s death, was not involved in that confrontation, according to the prose saga.