Konungs skuggsjá

þing sin þa toco þeir þat

their assembly, then they took this

til

as

raðs at yla at hanum sꝩa sæm ꝩargar

their counsel: to howl at him just like wolves.

En þa er hann

And when he

sa at

saw that

Ða er ænn æinn sa

There is yet one

lutr er

thing which

unndarlegr man þyckia um mænn þa er

will seem strange, concerning men who

gelt ero

are gelt [crazed by terror],

kallaðer

so called.

. En þæsse er soc til

And this is the reason for it,

æf mænn ꝩærða at giellte at þar

when men go gelt: that there

sæm

where

lið kœmr saman

an army comes together

oc skipat mæð tꝩænnum

and [is] drawn up in two

fylkingum oc

battle lines, and

œpa hvarertꝩæggia hærop

both sides shout the war-cry

akaflega þa kann

fiercely, then it can

þat at hænnda

happen to

blauða mænn

cowardly men

oc œsku fulla þa sæm æi hafa fyʀr í hæʀr

and those full of youth, who have never before

komit

come into battle,

at þeir

that they

lata ꝩit sitt af þeiʀi ogn

lose their wits from the terror

oc ræzlo er þeir fa þar. oc

and fright they meet there, and

laupa siðan

then run

í skoga fra aðrum

into the woods away from other

mannum oc fœðaz þar

people and live there

sæm dyr

like animals,

oc sꝩa forðaz þeir manna funnd sæm

and so they shun meeting people just as

ꝩillidyʀ.

wild beasts [do].

En

And

sꝩa er

so it is

sagt fra folki þæsso

said of these people:

æf þat lifir i skogum .xx. ꝩætr mæð þæssom

if they live in the woods twenty winters in this

hætti. þa

way, then

ꝩaxa fiaðrar alikamum

feathers grow on the bodies

þeiʀa sꝩa sæm a fuglum

of them, as on birds,

þær er hylia ma

which can cover

Lucifær kallaðr oc ꝩar hann skipaðr

called Lucifer, and he was appointed

hofðingi iꝩir morghum

chieftain over many

ænglum.

angels.

oc neig

And there inclined

mykell fiolði ængla til hans mæð þionosto

a great multitude of angels to him with service