I should know better than to try to start something like this at the end of the day.  Everything made MUCH more sense after reading other people's stuff.
 
However, for the record, this is what I managed on my own:


> Hvarf ek frá hvítri
> hlaðs beðgunni
> á Agnafit
> utanverðri;
> saga mun sannask,
> sú er hon sagði mér,
> at aptr koma
> eigi mundak.

I went away from the white headress of bed-battle at Agnafit  (Ok, headdresses are usually women, and white is a compliment, but did he just call his girlfriend a F#(%-helmet?)

I want to remember the story of her telling to me ?without withdrawing the point?

> Drag þú mér af hendi
> hring inn rauða,
> foerðu inni ungu
> Ingibjörgu;
> sá mun henni
> hugfastr tregi,
> er ek eigi kem
> til Uppsala.

Drag me by the hands, the red ring, bring home/indoors young Ingibjorg
That woman with steadfast reluctance, that I not come to upsala. (close but no cigar?? maybe?)
 

> Hvarf ek frá fögrum
> fljóða söngvi
> ótrauðr gamans
> austr við Sóta;
> för skundaðak
> ok fórk í lið
> hinzta sinni
> frá hollvinum.

I went away from beautiful woman ??? not unwilling  for pleasures with Sota.
Away I hurried and punted ship last time from the faithful friends

> Hrafn flýgr austan
> af hám meiði,
> flýgr honum eptir
> örn í sinni;
> þeim gef ek erni
> efstum bráðir,
> sá mun á blóði
> bergja mínu."

Raven flies east  ??? sledgerunner, eagle follows him on the journey

I give them vigourous uppermost meat that they remember blood taste ??


 
On 22/09/2007, llama_nom <600cell@...> wrote:


Watch out for a tricky 3-part kenning in the next strophe, 'hlaðs
beðgunnr'. The context is Hjálmarr describing how he took his leave
of his betrothed Ingibjörg on Agnafit, an isthmus on Lake Mälaren in
Sweden. Nobody knows who Sóti (in strophe 7) was. Turville-Petre
writes, "It has been suggested that Sóti may have been the companion
of Hjálmarr in an older form of the story. Cf. R. C. Boer, Örvar-odds
saga, 1892, p. XVI." (The poem is thought to be older than the prose
sagas in which it appears in its various forms.)

Hvarf ek frá hvítri
hlaðs beðgunni
á Agnafit
utanverðri;
saga mun sannask,
sú er hon sagði mér,
at aptr koma
eigi mundak.

Drag þú mér af hendi
hring inn rauða,
foerðu inni ungu
Ingibjörgu;
sá mun henni
hugfastr tregi,
er ek eigi kem
til Uppsala.

Hvarf ek frá fögrum
fljóða söngvi
ótrauðr gamans
austr við Sóta;
för skundaðak
ok fórk í lið
hinzta sinni
frá hollvinum.

Hrafn flýgr austan
af hám meiði,
flýgr honum eptir
örn í sinni;
þeim gef ek erni
efstum bráðir,
sá mun á blóði
bergja mínu."




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