Skaut ek ei skemra en skilfingar;
var léttskafin lind í hendi.
Réðum síðan sunds at kosta;
lét ek báða þá blóði snýta.
Ek skaut ei skemra en skilfingar; léttskafin lind var í hendi. Réðum síðan at kosta sunds; ek lét þá báða snýta blóði.
I did not shoot shorter than the princes; a lightly shaved linden spear-shaft was in my hand. Then we contended in swimming; I gave both of them bloody noses.
[7-8] ek lét þá báða snýta blóði ‘I gave both of them bloody noses’: Lit. ‘I caused them both to blow their noses with blood’. According to the prose saga (Ǫrv 1888, 154-5) Oddr forces both Sigurðr and Sjólfr down under water for so long that when they surface blood trickles from their noses.