Hallfreðar saga

Fyrr mun annat at berask. Ok skilðu við þat. Hallfreðr reið

Something else will happen first. And with that they parted. Hallfred rode

suðr til bróður síns, en þá var faðir hans andaðr,

south to his brother's, and by then his father had died,

ok var þar um vetrinn. Ok um várit er hann fór norðr, þá

and he was there over the winter. And in the spring, when he went north,

rak á fyrir þeim hríð. Hallfreðr kvað þat vera gerningaveðr. Þeir

a snowstorm drove at them. Hallfred said it was a storm raised by sorcery. They

riðu ofan eftir Vatnsdal, þar til at fyrir þeim varð

rode down along Vatnsdal until there was before them

einn garðr, ok spruttu þar upp tuttugu menn. Þar var kominn

a wall, and twenty men sprang up there. There had come

Már af Mársstǫðum. Hann hleypr fyrir Hallfreð,

Mar of Marsstadir. He runs in front of Hallfred,

en Hallfreðr høggr þegar til hans, en Már brá fyrir blóttrugli

and Hallfred strikes at him at once, but Mar thrust a sacrificial bowl in the way,

, ok varð hann ekki sárr. Hallfreðr reið þá ór garðshliðinu

and he was not wounded. Hallfred then rode out through the gate in the wall.

. Már kallaði: Sǿkjum at þeim. Hallfreðr kvað

Mar called: Let us go at them! Hallfred spoke

vísu: Mjǫk tegask sveima søkkvir, snót, verð ek þegns

a verse: Hard strives the sinker of tumults, lady; I meet with the man's