Sól ok sunna, sýn, fagrahvél,
leiptr, hrjóðr, leika, líknskin, rǫðull,
leiptr, ifrǫðull ok ljósfari,
drífandi, alfrǫðull ok Dvalins leika.
Sól ok sunna, sýn, fagrahvél, leiptr, hrjóðr, leika, líknskin, rǫðull, leiptr, ifrǫðull ok ljósfari, drífandi, alfrǫðull ok leika Dvalins.
Sun and sunlight, sight, fair-wheel, lightning, coverer, plaything, grace-shine, disc, lightning, doubt-disc and light-bringer, driving one, elf-disc and Dvalinn’s <dwarf’s> plaything.
[4] líknskin: líkskin Tˣ, ‘likskinn’ A, blik skín B
[4] líknskin (n.) ‘grace-shine’: So R, C and the list of heiti for ‘sun’ in Skm (SnE 1998, I, 85; SnE 1998, II, 347); the other mss of the þula have different variants of this heiti. Mss Tˣ and A give líkskin ‘pleasant-shine’ (from the verb líka ‘please’ or, possibly, from lík n. ‘body’), and B has blikskin ‘gleaming shine’. None of these variants are otherwise attested in poetry.