> hafa það uppi af er verst er og berja í brestina

MM & HP "showing all the worse articles and trying to disguise their
defects."

> gefist honum eigi vel

MM & HP "are rude to him"

> óæðra bekk

See the diagram in Gordon: An Introduction to Old Norse, p. 229.

> Ærinn hafa þeir klækiskap

MM & HP (paraphrasing) "A lot of perverts, that's about all."

> Hann mun spyrja hvað þú færir til þess að eigi megi koma maður í

stað hans.

MM & HP "Hrut will ask you what makes you think that no one can fill
his place."

> að aldrei varð á um hans höfðingskap

MM & HP "that his chieftainship was quite faultless." Is this the
idiom 'e-m verðr á' "one makes a mistake, blunder"?