‘Þeir þjótandi þrjár of hrœra
búnir at berjask Bretlands eyjar.
Þá mun vakna viðr inn danski
ok manns rǫddu mæla sjalfri.
‘Þjótandi, búnir at berjask, of hrœra þeir þrjár eyjar Bretlands. Þá mun inn danski viðr vakna ok mæla sjalfri rǫddu manns.
‘Wailing, prepared to fight, they will stir up the three islands of Britain. Then the Danish wood will awake and speak with a man’s actual voice.
[2] þrjár: þrír Hb
[2] þrjár ‘three’: Emended from ms. þrír (refreshed), the m. nom. pl. form, in Bret 1848-9, followed by all subsequent eds.