Þat var spell, er spörr um vann
á akri Ímsiguls.
Axi var skatt, ór var korn numit;
þat mun æ Tötru ætt um trega.
Þat var spell, er spörr um vann á akri Ímsiguls. Axi var skatt, korn var ór numit; þat mun ætt Tötru æ um trega.
It was devastation that a sparrow caused on Ímsigull’s field. An ear of corn was destroyed, the grain was taken from it; that will grieve Tǫtra’s family for ever.
[2] vann: gerði 194cˣ
[2, 6] um vann; um trega ‘caused; grieve’: The later form (um) of the pleonastic particle of has been preferred in both these cases. On the normalisation of of to um in post-1250 texts, see Ásm 1/3, 5 and Note there.