Ristu af magni mikla hellu,
Sigmundr hjörvi ok Sinfjötli.
Ristu mikla hellu af magni, Sigmundr hjörvi ok Sinfjötli.
They cut the huge stone slab with strength, Sigmundr with his sword and Sinfjǫtli.
[3] hjörvi ‘with his sword’: According to Vǫls ch. 3, Sigmundr obtains his sword by drawing it out of the trunk of an apple tree growing in the middle of his father’s hall. Like King Arthur and his acquisition of the sword Excalibur, only Sigmundr can withdraw the sword from the tree-trunk into which it has been plunged by Óðinn.