ESk Geisl 60VII/6 — strǫndu ‘the beach’
Tungan vas með tangar
tírkunns numin munni
(vasa sem vænst) ok þrysvar
(viðrlíf) skorin knífi.
Auðskiptir lá eptir
(ǫnd lætr maðr) á strǫndu
(margr of minni sorgir)
meinsamliga hamlaðr.
Tungan tírkunns vas numin með tangar munni ok þrysvar skorin knífi; vasa viðrlíf sem vænst. Auðskiptir lá eptir á strǫndu meinsamliga hamlaðr; margr maðr lætr ǫnd of minni sorgir.
The tongue of the one accustomed to praise was taken by the tong’s mouth and cut three times with a knife; that was not a very hopeful treatment. The wealth-distributor [MAN] remained lying on the beach painfully mutilated; many a man gives up the ghost from fewer afflictions.
notes
[6] á strǫndu ‘on the beach’: The prose versions tell us that the incident took place on the shore of a lake. Einarr specifies a similar location in his account of the man mutilated by the Wends (st. 40); he may have confused the circumstances of the two miracles.