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.
[3] í hundraðsflokki ‘in a force of a hundred’: For this military term, see Note to ÞjóðA Magnfl 7/1II. In what is possibly an echo of the present half-stanza, Þjóðólfr Arnórsson (c. 1045) depicts King Magnús inn góði ‘the Good’ Óláfsson of Norway as framast manna í hundraðsflokki ‘foremost of the men in a force of a hundred’ at the battle against the Wends at Lyrskovshede in 1043.