Flugglǫð, flugsvinn, Fífa ok skeyti,
geta skal fennu ok Gusis smíðis;
Jólfs smíði es, en øfst þura.
Flugglǫð, flugsvinn, Fífa ok skeyti, skal geta fennu ok smíðis Gusis; es smíði Jólfs, en øfst þura.
Flight-bright one, flight-swift one, Fífa and missile, I shall mention finder and Gusir’s handiwork; there is Jólfr’s handiwork and the last is whizzer.
[2] Fífa: Lit. ‘cotton-grass’, originally the name of a plant (Eriophorum) and here referring to an arrow with a plume. This is another of King Gusir’s arrows (see also Flaug st. 1/4, Hremsa st. 1/6 and smíðis Gusis ‘Gusir’s handiwork’ st. 2/4). Fífa ‘Arrow’ is also the name of a ship (see Falk 1914b, 99 and Rv Lv 8/5II). Fífa as a heiti for ‘arrow’ in general does not occur in poetry earlier than in the rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: fífa).