Mímungr ok fellir ok málvitnir,
taurarr, hrævarðr, trani, vindþvari,
liðnir, Kvernbiti, ljómi, herðir,
vitnir, yfrir, veggjalestir.
Mímungr ok fellir ok málvitnir, taurarr, hrævarðr, trani, vindþvari, liðnir, Kvernbiti, ljómi, herðir, vitnir, yfrir, veggjalestir.
Mímungr and feller and ornamented wolf, taurar, corpse-wrapped one, crane, wind-borer, one belonging to an army, Kvernbiti, brightness, hardened one, wolf, overcomer, damager of walls.
[3] hrævarðr (m.) ‘corpse-wrapped one’: An otherwise unattested cpd, from hræ n. ‘corpse, carrion’ and p. p. of the weak verb verja ‘clothe, wrap, enclose’ (so Falk 1914b, 52; SnE 1998, II, 321). The variant hrævaðr in mss A and B (and in the LaufE mss) could be interpreted as ‘one who wades through corpses’, from hræ- and ‑vaðr, an agent noun from the strong verb vaða ‘wade’, playing on the metaphor that a sword steps on corpses.