L'epitaffio è nella metrica che Snorri Sturluson chiamava "hinn skammi háttr". ###>Sophus Bugge noted in his "Runverser" that the expression "arði barði" ("ploughed his stern") also appears in the Icelandic "Third Grammatical Treatise" by Óláfr Þórðarson, and as well in a verse by the Okney jarl Rögnvald Brusason.