‘Enn munu í skógi skœðir síðan
vargar vakna veiða í borgum.
Þeir munu sína sjalfir dolga
fella eða fjǫtra; fáir munu verða,
þeirs treystask þeim telja at móti.
‘Enn munu skœðir vargar síðan vakna í skógi, veiða í borgum. Þeir munu sjalfir fella eða fjǫtra dolga sína; fáir munu verða, þeirs telja treystask at móti þeim.
‘Then once more will vicious wolves awaken in the forest, hunt in the cities. They will themselves kill or shackle their foes; few will there be, who have confidence to complain against them.
[3] vargar ‘wolves’: Gunnlaugr appears to replace Geoffrey’s prediction of insurrection on the part of the king’s children with a less specific vision of an uprising by outlaws, ‘outlaw’ being another sense of vargr in Old Norse. But possibly he is referring back to the progeny of the léons vargar ‘the lion’s wolves’ mentioned in I 52/9.