Skírnir kvað:

Kostir ro betri

There are better options

 

heldr en at klökkva sé,

than acting the coward

 

hveim er fúss er fara;

for any man keen to be going:

 

eino dægri

to only one day or night

 

mér var aldr um skapaðr

my life's end was dated,

 

ok alt líf um lagit.

and all my existence ordained.