Allar vættir, er í jörðu búa,
vilja Fjölmóðar fé fara.
Gulli mínu er þeir glutruðu;
skalat því * lengi lifa.
Allar vættir, er búa í jörðu, vilja fara fé Fjölmóðar. Er þeir glutruðu gulli mínu; skalat því * lengi lifa.
All creatures that live in the earth want to destroy Fjǫlmóðr’s wealth. They have squandered my gold; because of that I shall not live any longer.
[6] skalat því * lengi lifa: skalat því eigi lengi lifa 164hˣ
[6] skalat því * lengi lifa ‘because of that I shall not live any longer’: The ms. negates the verb with suffixed -at, which the scribe of 164hˣ, Björn Jónsson, may not have recognised as a negation, and gives free-standing eigi as well.