26.  Her head-gear adjusted.  A clasp was on her breast; ample her robe, her sark was blue; brighter was her brow, her breast fairer, her neck whiter than driven snow.

27.  Rig would counsel give to them both, and himself seated on the middle seat, having on either side the domestic pair.

28.  Then took Modir a figured cloth of white linen, and the table decked.  She then took thin cakes of snow-white wheat, and on the table laid.

29.  She set forth salvers full, adorned with silver, on the table game and pork, and roasted birds.  In a can was wine; the cups were ornamented.  They drank and talked; the day was fast departing, Rig would counsel give to them both.

30.  Rig then rose, the bed prepared; there he then remained three nights together, then departed on the mid-way.  Nine months after that passed away.

31.  Modir then brought forth a boy:  in silk they wrapped him, with water sprinkled him, and named him Jarl.  Light was his hair, bright his cheeks, his eyes piercing as a young serpent’s.

32.  There at home Jarl grew up, learned the shield to shake, to fix the string, the bow to bend, arrows to shaft, javelins to hurl, spears to brandish, horses to ride, dogs to let slip, swords to draw, swimming to practise.

33.  Thither from the forest came Rig walking, Rig walking:  runes he taught him, his own name gave him, and his own son declared him, whom he bade possess his alodial fields, his alodial fields, his ancient dwellings.

34.  Jarl then rode thence, through a murky way, over humid fells, till to a hall he came.  His spear he brandished, his shield he shook, made his horse curvet, and his falchion drew, strife began to raise, the field to redden, carnage to make; and conquer lands.

35.  Then he ruled alone over eight vills, riches distributed, gave to all treasures and precious things; lank-sided horses, rings he dispersed, and collars cut in pieces.[39]

36.  The nobles drove through humid ways, came to a hall, where Hersir dwelt; there they found a slender maiden, fair and elegant, Erna her name.

37.  They demanded her, and conveyed her home, to Jarl espoused her; she under the linen[40] went.  They together lived, and well throve, had offspring, and old age enjoyed.

38.  Bur was their eldest, Barn the second, Jod and Adal, Arfi, Mog, Nid and Nidjung.  They learned games; Son and Svein swam and at tables played.  One was named Kund, Kon was youngest.

39.  There grew up Jarl’s progeny; horses they broke, curved shields, cut arrows, brandished spears.

40.  But the young Kon understood runes, aefin-runes, and aldr-runes; he moreover knew men to preserve, edges to deaden, the sea to calm.

41.  He knew the voice of birds, how fires to mitigate, assuage and quench; sorrows to allay.  He of eight men had the strength and energy.

42.  He with Rig Jarl in runes contended, artifices practised, and superior proved; then acquired Rig to be called, and skilled in runes.