Gefjun dró frá Gylfa
glǫð djúprǫðul ǫðla,
svát af rennirauknum
rauk, Danmarkar auka.
Bôru øxn ok átta
ennitungl, þars gingu
fyr vinjeyjar víðri
valrauf, fjǫgur haufuð.
Gefjun dró frá Gylfa, glǫð, djúprǫðul ǫðla, auka Danmarkar, svát rauk af rennirauknum. Øxn bôru átta ennitungl ok fjǫgur haufuð, þars gingu fyr víðri valrauf vinjeyjar.
Gefjun drew from Gylfi, glad, a deep disk of inherited land [ISLAND = Sjælland], Denmark’s addition [= Sjælland], so that steam rose from the swift-moving draught animals. The oxen bore eight forehead-moons [EYES] and four heads, where they went before the wide plunder-rift of the meadow-island [= Sjælland].
[7] vinjeyjar: vineyjar R, Kˣ, F, J2ˣ, ‘vineydiar’ Tˣ, ‘vinæyia’ W
[7] vinjeyjar ‘of the meadow-island’: A rare use of the noun vin ‘meadow’, otherwise only found in Old Norse compounds denoting tax payable on farm products and in Norwegian place names (cf. AEW: vin). For the archaic form vinjeyjar (rather than the later vineyjar), see Note to Bragi Rdr 2/3-4.