From: llama_nom
Message: 5475
Date: 2005-08-13
> Veitk EysteinsOkay, here goes my first guess: "I know [that] the ending of
> enda folginn
> lokins lífs
> á Lófundi,
> Bjarni Aðalbjarnarson interpreted: "ég veit, að endi örlagaþráðarEysteins
> var falinn á Lófundi""I know that the end of Eysteinn's thread-of-fate [the thread of
> Finnur Jónsson translated simply: "Jeg ved, at Østens livavsluttedes på
> Lofund.""I know that E.'s life concluded in L."
> Samuel Laing "translated":The "but now I know" makes me think that Laing maybe
>
> For a long time none could tell
> How Eystein died -- but now I know
> That at Lofond the hero fell;
> The branch of Odin was laid low,