The "gryle" (bogey) verse ("Skekla komena")

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Norn	Old Norse/Nordic	English
Skεkla koməna rīna tūna swa'rta hæsta blæⁱta brūna fo'mtəna (fjo'mtan) hāla and fo'mtəna (fjo'mtan) bjadnis a kwāra hāla	Skekill er kominn ríðandi á túnit á svǫrtum hesti með bletti á brúnni fimmtán halar ok fimmtán bǫrn á hverjum hala.	A bug-bear [*skekill] has come riding into the home-field (the tun) on a black horse having a white spot (blæⁱta) on its brow (brūna), and fifteen tails, and with fifteen children on each tail.

Cf. a passage from Sturlungasaga:
þá er Loptr reið á túnit, kvað hann þetta: Hér ferr grýla í garð ofan ok hefir á sér hala fimmtán

JJ: All the old grammatical endings are levelled to -a, except in bjadnis which has got the Eng. plural ending -s.

HN: bjadnis < def. barnit + Eng. pl. -s. Most of the old prepositions are dropped. Notice the usage of the English conjunction and.

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