Ingvar nefna enskir saungvar
illan kóng, er lögunum spillir;
ræna vildi ríki sínu
ræsi þann og forsið æsir.
Þeingill varð í þessu fanginn
... gramr †að ... b…gir†
þeim fyr skotspón
Enskir saungvar nefna illan kóng, Ingvar, er spillir lögunum; ræna vildi ræsi þann ríki sínu og æsir forsið. Þeingill varð fanginn í þessu ... gramr †að b…gir† fyr skotspón þeim.
English poems mention a wicked king, Ingvarr, who destroys the laws; he wanted to rob that king of his kingdom and moves forward with rage. The king was captured during this ... angry ... as a target for them ...
[7] fyr skotspón þeim ‘as a target for them [the Vikings]’: All versions of Edmund’s martyrdom, following Abbo, emphasise this feature, and the fact that he was tied to a tree and shot full of arrows, like S. Sebastian, until he bristled uelut asper herecius aut spinis hirtus carduus ‘like a prickly hedgehog or a thistle bristly with spines’ (Winterbottom 1972, 78).