Hann mældi mik mundum ok spönnum,
alla arma til úlfliða,
… …,
vaxit hári á höku niðri.
Hann mældi mik mundum ok spönnum, alla arma til úlfliða, … vaxit hári á höku niðri.
He measured me with hands and hand-breadths, all my arms to the wrists … grown with hair down on my chin.
[1] mældi: mælti both
[1] mældi ‘measured’: Both mss have mælti ‘spoke’, but the context indicates that the verb must be mældi, 3rd pers. sg. pret. indic. of mæla ‘measure’.