‘Es fundr lagiðr ok friðr samiðr;
koma mildingar málstefnu til.
En á fundi þeim flærðir reynask;
banar hertoga brezkr landreki.
‘Fundr es lagiðr ok friðr samiðr; mildingar koma til málstefnu. En flærðir reynask á þeim fundi; brezkr landreki banar hertoga.
‘A meeting will be set and a safe-conduct concluded; the leaders will come to the council. But at that meeting treacheries will come to pass; the British ruler will slay the war-leader.
[4] málstefnu ‘the council’: The sole attestation of this cpd in poetry. Cf. mæltrar stefnu ‘appointed meeting’ in Halli XI Fl 3/4II, a poem that exhibits a similar interest in procedures concerning truces and meetings.