‘Hagr gerisk hǫlða hættr í mǫrgu;
munat fyrða ráð fagrt at reyna.
Dyljask drjúgum draums ívaðendr;
við sjalfa sik sjásk ekki at.
‘Hagr hǫlða gerisk hættr í mǫrgu; munat fagrt at reyna ráð fyrða. Ívaðendr draums dyljask drjúgum; sjásk ekki at við sik sjalfa.
‘The state of men will become perilous in many ways; it will not be good to test the conduct of men. Wanderers in a dream, they will be massively deluded; they will not take heed about themselves.
[4] reyna ‘test’: This verb is attested in relation to God’s testing of Job and Abraham in HómÍsl (HómÍsl 1993, 29, 43; cf. ONP: reyna), and the sense is probably similar here.