At kom gangandi, þar es jǫfrar bǫrðusk;
helt hann upp hǫfði: ‘hér es þér skattr, sultan.’
Gangandi kom at, þar es jǫfrar bǫrðusk; hann helt upp hǫfði: ‘hér es þér skattr, sultan.’
Walking, he arrived where the princes were fighting; he held up a head: ‘here’s treasure for you, sultan.’
[4] sultan: A loan word ultimately from Arabic. Finnur Jónsson (TGT 1927, 109) argues that the presence of this word means that it is unlikely that the half-stanza is old. The word occurs as the nickname of Nikolás sultan, King Sverrir’s maternal uncle (Sv chs 97, 108, ÍF 30, 150, 166; cf. ONP: sultan).