En er Jǫrmunrekkr konungr sá haukinn þá kom honum í hug at svá sem haukrinn var ófleygr ok fjaðrlauss, ok svá var ríki hans ófœrt er hann var gamall ok sonlauss.
But when King Jörmunrekkr saw the hawk, suddenly it came home to him that even as the hawk was featherless and powerless to fly, so was his kingdom shorn of its might, since he was old and childless.
