Upp gaf al-köpnom Engns her-fengna Il fyrer itr-bóla Eyþi dal-reydar.
He gave up Ila, taken by his troops, to the valiant Angus the liberal distributor of beauteous rings.
XX. Lindiseyri is by some thought to be Lindisnes in Norway, but, as the Irish are mentioned, it is more probably Leins-tir in Ireland. It must be owned, however, that this argument is not conclusive, since the Sea-kings of the British isles often returned the visits of Lochlin. Lluyd speaks of one Yrp Lyidog (perhaps the famous Erp of the Islandic writers, or the Erp of the Pictish chronicles) who with his fleet made a descent on Scandinavia. The cause of Harold Harfager’s voyage to the Hibernian seas was, that swarms of freebooters, from that quarter, nestled in the Orkneys, and from thence made depredations on the coast of Norway.
XXI. Records a battle, at the mouth of a river in Anglesey the Mona of the Romans.
XXII. Contains a paraphrase of some sentiments of Tyrtaus.
Αἰσχρὸν γὰρ δὴ τοῦτο, μετὰ προμάχοισι πεσόντα Κεῖθσαι πρόσθε νέων ἄνδρα παλαιότερον.
