Né hœfilig, hreifa,
hykk dróttinssvik þóttu,
elds, þeims allvel heldu
orð sín, viðir, forðum.
Né hykk, viðir elds hreifa, dróttinssvik þóttu hœfilig, þeims heldu orð sín allvel forðum.
I do not think, trees of the fire of the hand [GOLD > MEN], betrayal of one’s lord seemed becoming to those who kept their word very well in the past.
[2] þóttu: so all others, corrected from ‘varo’ FskBˣ
[2] þóttu ‘seemed’: Lit. ‘to have seemed’, a past inf. governed by hykk ‘I think’.