The version given by Svabo is at variance with the Saga and has many internal discrepancies arising mainly from the fact that Hjalmar and Angantyr are here taken to be brothers, as in the Danish ballad. In the _Antiquarisk TÌdsskrift_ for 1849-1851 I published another version which I took down in Sand¯ in 1848, and in which I made some use of Svabo's version. My version corresponds exactly with the _Harvarar Saga_, but it is open to suspicion from the fact that it here forms the second part (_th·ttr_) of _Hjalmar's KvÊi_, of which the first part (_The Th·ttr of ÷rvar-Oddr_) is clearly of later origin; as is shown not only by the language, but also by the fact that the whole falls in with Suhm's story,--"The three friends, Hjalmar, Asbjˆrn and ÷rvarodd," etc. Many verses of _Arngrim's Sons_ presuppose a first _t·ttur_ to the ballad, for example that in which the sick Asbjˆrn complains that he cannot follow his companion to the fight on Sams¯[1]. That the language in the second part is purer and older than in the first part is easily explained from the fact that the people of Sand¯ have utilised the older Faroese version which was taken down by Svabo. They only needed to transpose the verses and to make a very few changes to get the whole readjusted according to the Saga or Suhm's story. The verses which the Sand¯ version has in common with Svabo's could therefore be used for purposes of comparison. There are thus weighty reasons for giving preference to Svabo's version, in spite of all its imperfections. Of the first part of _Hjalmar's KvÊi_ I have unfortunately been unable to obtain a copy, though it is no doubt accessible at Copenhagen, as it is mentioned as number 60 ('_Hjalmar's KvÊi_, 2 tÊttir: _a_, ÷rvaroddur, _b_, Arngrim's Sinir') in a list of Faroese ballads taken down in the Faroes by Hammershaimb for the archaeological archives of the Royal Old Norse Text Society[2]. Hammershaimb says[3], however, that the first part "deals with Hjalmar's youth, the counsel given him by his father when he leaves home, how he is taken into the retinue (_hir_) of the Swedish King, how he distinguishes himself by his bravery against the vikings, and how he and Asbjˆrn and ÷rvarodd swear to be foster-brothers." The translation which follows is made from Hammershaimb's second edition of the ballad, published in _Nordiske Oldskrifter_, vols. 18 and 19, Part II[4]--which is in fact Svabo's text; but the refrain of his first version has been adopted.