Brynja, kund, hjalmgǫll, hrauð ok náin,
kǫld, Finnsleif, …
bǫðfara, þýðsýn ok blóðleika.
Brynja, kund, hjalmgǫll, hrauð ok náin, kǫld, Finnsleif … bǫðfara, þýðsýn ok blóðleika.
Mail-shirt, intimate friend, helmet-clang, covering one and near one, cold one, Finnsleif (‘Finnr’s legacy’) … battle-goer, pleasant-sight and blood-playmate.
[5] bǫðfara: so A, ‘bofø̨ra’ R, ‘borofa’ Tˣ, ‘bofæða’ C, blóðfara B
[5] bǫðfara (f.) ‘battle-goer’: So A, and adopted in Skj B and Skald (cf. dynfara ‘noisy-goer’ in Þul Ǫrvar 1/4); B has blóðfara ‘blood-goer’. The readings in other mss are corrupt (‘bofø̨ra’ in R might be a corruption of bǫðfœra f. ‘battle-bringer’; so SnE 1998). None of these names occurs elsewhere.