- The Munificent Prince brought fire's destruction
- O'er the base people; to the pirates
- Death was fated: Thief-Compeller,
- South at Jóm highest flame-glow kindle!
Illustrious One, as Hallvardr sang:
- No Illustrious One nearer
- Under Earth's Hazel liveth
- Than thou, O Monks' Upholder:
- The Gold-Minisher Danes protecteth.
Land-Driver, as Thjódólfr sang:
- The guileless Land-Driver sprinkles
- Kraki's gleaming barley,
as was written before;[1] he is called so because he drives his host about the lands of other kings, or drives a host out of his own land.
LXIV. "There was a king named Hálfdan the Old, who was most famous of all kings. He made a great sacrificial feast at mid-winter, and sacrificed to this end, that he might live three hundred years in his kingdom; but he received these answers: he should not live more than the full life of a man, but for three hundred years there should be no woman and no man in his line who was not of great repute. He was a great warrior, and went on forays far and wide in the Eastern Regions:[2] there he slew in single combat the king who was called Sigtryggr. Then he took in
