Fór málsnjallr
Magnús konungr
til Írlands
ungr at herja.
Varð ágætr
Eysteins faðir
fleina flaug
felldr í þeiri.
Málsnjallr Magnús konungr fór ungr til Írlands at herja. Ágætr faðir Eysteins varð felldr í þeiri flaug fleina.
Eloquent King Magnús went young to Ireland to harry. The famous father of Eysteinn [= Magnús] was killed in that flight of spears [BATTLE].
[4] ungr ‘young’: Magnús was close to thirty years old when he died (see ÍF 28, 237).