Sveinn Norðrdr 1III/3 — fǫls ‘from the white’
Þás élreifar ófu
Ægis dœtr ok tœttu
fǫls við frost of alnar
fjallgarðs rokur harðar.
Þás harðar rokur fǫls fjallgarðs ófu ok tœttu élreifar dœtr Ægis, of alnar við frost.
When hard whirlwinds from the white mountain range wove and tore apart the storm-happy daughters of Ægir <giant> [WAVES], nourished by frost.
readings
[3] fǫls: fals all
notes
[3] fǫls ‘white’: All eds have emended the mss’ ‘fals’ to fǫls, following a suggestion of Konráð Gíslason (see Skj AI, 418 n.). The scribes may have sought to correct the rhyme between ǫ and a, which did not occur after the late C12th (see Hreinn Benediktsson 1963a). Fǫlr usually means ‘pale’, but here must refer to the snow-covered Greenland mountains.