‘Kømr árgalli enn inn mikli
ok meinliga manndauðr of her;
eyðask borgir við bragna tjón.
Es nauðr mikil nýtra manna;
flýr margr á brott maðr ór landi.
‘Enn kømr inn mikli árgalli ok manndauðr meinliga of her; borgir eyðask við tjón bragna. Es mikil nauðr nýtra manna; margr maðr flýr á brott ór landi.
‘Once more there will come a great failure of the harvest and mortality [with it], hurtfully over the people; cities will be devastated with the loss of men. There will be great adversity for valiant men; many a man will flee away from the land.
[8] nýtra manna ‘for valiant men’: Lit. ‘of valiant men’; subjective gen., following Skj B: nød blandt dygtige mænd ‘adversity among valiant men’. Interpreted in Bret 1848-9 as Nödklager af Borgerne ‘cries of calamity from the citizens’.