Sax hefir þú, Ölvir, slík eru vápn færi,
bana veitti Bendli, barstu þat ór helli.
Brá ek hilmis sonum í hana líki;
forðaðak ykru fjörvi; fegri em ek nú hóti.
Þú hefir sax, Ölvir, færi vápn eru slík, veitti Bendli bana, barstu þat ór helli. Ek brá sonum hilmis í líki hana; forðaðak fjörvi ykru; ek em nú hóti fegri.
You have a sword, Ǫlvir, there are few weapons like it, it gave death to Bendill <giant>, you bore it out of a cave. I changed the sons of a king into the bodies of roosters; I saved your lives; now I am a little more beautiful.
[3] Bendli: so papp6ˣ, ‘bedu’ 109a IIIˣ, ‘belu’ ÍBR5ˣ
[3] veitti Bendli bana ‘it gave death to Bendill <giant>’: The diminutive bendill (from band ‘band, bond’) occurs only here apparently as a giant-name; elsewhere it is found among heiti for ‘seed, grain’ (Þul Sáðs 2/5III and Note), the equivalent of ModIcel. bendill, ModNorw. bendel ‘a band of straw around a sheaf of corn’ (AEW: bendill). ÍBR5ˣ’s belu may recall the name of the giant Beli, whom the god Freyr killed with a hart’s horn (SnE 2005, 31). The giant of HjǪ is not given a name in the prose text.