The version of verilog-mode.el that ships with emacs 26.1 also does not open cleanly with the elisp mode. That file is in /usr/share/emacs/26.1/lisp/progmodes/verilog-mode.el
The errors are different, but I believe the issue is with the elisp-mode, not the file.
Ian
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