Hafa allframer Jofra Ut sín haufut Knute Færþ or Fifi nordan Fridkaup var þat midio.
Princes from the middle of Fife, with bowed beads, have purchased peace of Canute.
Towards the middle af the xi. age, M’ Duff, probably descended of Duff (or as the monkish writers call him Niger) king of Scotland, having killed the usurper M Beth thane of Angus at Dun-fin-oen (Fin - Evan-castle) got Fife erected into a county palatine. His posterity also ”Propter M’ Nigram” were entitled to certain privileges, contained in a Gothic inscription engraven on a stone pillar.
XIII. Hadninga bay is supposed to have been in the Orkneys; the two last lines are imitated in the Fridthiofsaga. Ei er sem biarta bruþi &c.
XIV. Northumberland was one of the oldest Saxon establishments, and it is remarkable, that the Danes, to this day, retain the guttural pronounciation or burr observable in the north of England. The two last lines of this stanza are also imitated in the Fridthiofsaga. Erat sem eckia &c.
