Vammlausa skaltu, vísi,
ef viltu griðum þyrma,
— heim höfum hilmi sóttan —
heðan mik fara láta.
Vísi, skaltu láta mik fara heðan vammlausa, ef viltu þyrma griðum; höfum sóttan hilmi heim.
Leader, you must let me go away unblemished, if you wish to keep to the terms of the safe-conduct; I have visited the ruler.
[2] ef viltu griðum þyrma: ‘[…] vil(l)tu (gridum þryma)’(?) 147
[2] griðum ‘the terms of the safe-conduct’: Lit. ‘the safe-conduct’. In the saga prose (Ragn 1906-8, 125), Kráka-Áslaug insisted on a safe-conduct for herself and her companion when visiting Ragnarr. When she meets him on board his ship, however, the dog accompanying her bites Ragnarr’s outstretched hand, and is promptly killed by his men, who strangle it with a bowstring, thus showing scant respect for the safe-conduct, as the saga indicates.