Stanza 155

Original Old Norse:	Auden & Taylor:	Bellows:	Bray:
Þat kann ek it tíunda ef ek sé túnriðir leika lopti á ek svá vinnk at þeir villir fara sinna heimhama sinna heimhuga	I know a tenth: if troublesome ghosts Ride the rafters aloft, I can work it so they wander astray, Unable to find their forms, Unable to find their homes.	156. A tenth I know, | what time I see House-riders flying on high; So can I work | that wildly they go, Showing their true shapes, Hence to their own homes.	154. A tenth I know: when at night the witches ride and sport in the air, such spells I weave that they wander home out of skins and wits bewildered.
Chisholm:	Hollander:	Terry:	Thorpe:
I know a tenth. If I see ghost-riders sporting in the sky, I can work it that the wild ones fare away. So their shapes (ham) shall fare home, so their spirits fare home.	That tenth I know, if night-hags sporting I scan aloft in the sky: I scare them with spells so they scatter abroad, heedless of their hides, heedless of their haunts.	I know a tenth: any time I see witches sailing the sky the spell I sing sends them off their course; when they lose their skins they fail to find their homes.	157. For the tenth I know, if I see troll-wives sporting in air, I can so operate that they will forsake their own forms, and their own minds.
House-riders: witches, who ride by night on the roofs of houses, generally in the form of wild beasts. Possibly one of the last two lines is spurious.