Hirð Ôleifs vann harða
hríð, en svá varðk bíða
(peitneskum feltk) páska,
palmsunnudag (hjalmi).
Hirð Ôleifs vann harða hríð palmsunnudag, en svá varðk bíða páska; feltk peitneskum hjalmi.
Óláfr’s following won a hard battle on Palm Sunday, and thus I had to await Easter; I put on a Poitou-made helmet.
[3, 4] peitneskum hjalmi ‘a Poitou-made helmet’: This reference to an evidently prestigious location of manufacture follows up on the more generic inn valska hjalm ‘the Frankish helmet’ of st. 5/6. For further references to weaponry from Poitou, see Eþver Lv 1/8, Arn Hryn 9/8II and Notes.