An edition and translation of the skaldic poem Vellekla ('Gold-Shortage') by poet Einarr skálaglamm ‘cup-tinkle’ Helgason, c. 980, in honour of Earl Hákon. The edition and translation is excerpted from The Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic, and Anglo-Norman Literatures, Edited by Richard North, Joe Allard, Patricia Gillies (2010). Reproduced with permission of the author