Heyr Míms vinar mína
— mérs fundr gefinn Þundar —
við góma sker glymja
glaumbergs, Egill, strauma.
Egill, heyr mína strauma glaumbergs vinar Míms glymja við sker góma; fundr Þundar [e]s gefinn mér.
Egill, hear my streams of the joy-cliff [BREAST] of the friend of Mímr <mythical being> [= Óðinn > POEM] resound against the skerries of gums [TEETH]; the discovery of Þundr <= Óðinn> [POETRY] is given to me.
[1] vinar: vinr U
[1] vinar Míms ‘of the friend of Mímr <mythical being> [= Óðinn]’: The name of this mythical being is given variously as Mímr (e.g. Vsp 46/1, 8), Mímir (e.g. Vsp 28/10, 11) or Mími (cf. AEW: Mimir (sic)). Mímir is listed among the giant-heiti in the þulur, and several myths link Mímr/Mímir to Óðinn (see Note to Þul Jǫtna I 1/3). The kenning vinr Míms is also used for Óðinn in Egill St 23/5V (Eg 94) and SnSt Ht 3/4 (see Note there). — [1, 4] mína strauma glaumbergs vinar Míms ‘my streams of the joy-cliff [BREAST] of the friend of Mímr <mythical being> [= Óðinn > POEM]’: This kenning uses a periphrasis for ‘mead of poetry’ metonymically for ‘poem’. The kenning ‘Óðinn’s liquid’ is expanded by an additional breast-kenning referring to the story of how Óðinn brought the mead of poetry back to the Æsir (see Skm, SnE 1998, I, 4). A comparable kenning is also found in Egill Hfl 1/2, 3V (Eg 34).
case: gen.