Ríkr es harra hneykir;
heldr goð jǫfurs veldi
sanndyggs; vitut seggir
Sveins brœðr konung œðra.
Hneykir harra es ríkr; goð heldr veldi sanndyggs jǫfurs; seggir vitut konung œðra brœðr Sveins.
The confounder of lords [RULER] is mighty; God supports the power of the truly loyal prince; men do not know a king superior to Sveinn’s brother [= Knútr Sveinsson].
[4] brœðr Sveins ‘Sveinn’s brother [= Knútr Sveinsson]’: Sveinn Úlfsson, Knútr’s father, had two sons called Sveinn, one with Gunnhildr, daughter of the Norwegian Sveinn jarl Hákonarson, and one with a concubine (see ÍF 35, 135 and Genealogy II). For Knútr inn helgi ‘the Holy’ Sveinsson (S. Knútr), see ÍF 35, 358.