Mundit efst, þars undir
árflogni gafk sárar,
Hlǫkk í hundraðsflokki
hvítinga mik líta.
Hlǫkk hvítinga mundit líta mik efst í hundraðsflokki, þars gafk árflogni sárar undir.
The Hlǫkk <valkyrie> of drinking-horns [WOMAN] would not see me rearmost in a force of a hundred, where I offered severe wounds to the raven.
[2] ‑flogni: ‑flogin U
[1-2] þars gafk árflogni sárar undir ‘where I offered severe wounds to the raven’: The sense here is that Skúli gave nourishment to the raven in the form of the blood and flesh of the men whom he wounded and killed at the battle. — [2] árflogni ‘to the raven’: The raven-heiti árflognir ‘early-flier’ is also attested in Þul Hrafns 2/4 and in GSúrs Lv 31/2V (Gísl 34). In the latter instance, ár- also forms aðalhending with sár-.