Mér réð senda of svalan ægi
Vǫlsunga niðr vápn gollbúit.
Niðr Vǫlsunga réð senda mér gollbúit vápn of svalan ægi.
The descendant of the Vǫlsungar <legendary family> [RULER] sent me a gold-adorned weapon across the cool sea.
[3] niðr Vǫlsunga ‘the descendant of the Vǫlsungar <legendary family> [RULER]’: Vǫlsungr was the father of Sigmundr and the progenitor of the legendary family of the Vǫlsungar (see HHund II, prose (NK 150), Hyndl 25-6 and Vǫlsunga saga). For genealogies that trace the lineage of the Norwegian kings to Vǫlsungr, see Flat 1860-8, I, 25-6 and Hb 1892-6, 505-6.
case: nom.