Réð Óláfr austr inn skygni,
sældargramr, fyr Svíaríki.
Hann bauð út almenningi;
mikill var hans helmingr talinn.
Óláfr inn skygni réð austr, sældargramr, fyr Svíaríki. Hann bauð út almenningi; helmingr hans var mikill talinn.
Óláfr inn skygni (‘the Sharp-sighted’) ruled in the east, the prosperous ruler, over the kingdom of the Swedes. He ordered the conscripted army out; his division was reckoned great.
[3] sældargramr ‘the prosperous ruler’: Sældar- gen. sg. of sæld ‘bliss, prosperity’ often occurs as the first element in compounds in the adjectival sense ‘happy, blessed, prosperous’; cf. Fritzner: sældarlíf ‘fortunate life’, sældarstaðr ‘place to spend a happy life’.