Hvati, hǫfuðhvessingr, hausamølvir,
hræva-Gautr, herbrái ok hold-Mímir,
bensœgr, brigðir, Brimir, huglognir,
skyggðir, skreyfir, skarðr, grindlogi.
Hvati, hǫfuðhvessingr, hausamølvir, hræva-Gautr, herbrái ok hold-Mímir, bensœgr, brigðir, Brimir, huglognir, skyggðir, skreyfir, skarðr, grindlogi.
Quick one, head-sharpener, crusher of skulls, Gautr of corpses, war-shining one and flesh-Mímir, wound-strip, fickle one, Brimir, clinch-failer, polished one, heaper, notched one, gate-flame.
[3] hræva‑Gautr: ‘hre᷎fag[…]r’ B, ‘þre᷎fagautr’ 744ˣ
[3] hræva-Gautr ‘Gautr of corpses’: Either a sword from Götaland (ON Gautland) (so Falk 1914b, 52), or possibly connected with Gautr, a name for Óðinn (see Þul Óðins 1/6; cf. also SnE 1998, II, 321). The first element of the cpd (hræva) is gen. pl. of hræ n. ‘corpse’. The cpd is not found elsewhere.