Rloð Lv 5VIII (Ragn 9)/1 — líz ‘seems’
Brynhildar líz brögnum
brúnstein hafa fránan
d*óttur mögr inn dýri
ok dyggligast hjarta.
Sjá berr alla ýta
undleygs boði magni,
Buðla niðr, er baugi
bráðgörr, hatar rauðum.
Inn dýri mögr d*óttur Brynhildar líz brögnum hafa fránan brúnstein ok dyggligast hjarta. Sjá niðr Buðla, bráðgörr boði undleygs, er hatar rauðum baugi, berr alla ýta magni.
The noble son of the daughter of Brynhildr [= Kráka/Áslaug > = Sigurðr ormr-í-auga] seems to men to have a glittering brow-stone [EYE] and a most steadfast heart. This descendant of Buðli [= Sigurðr ormr-í-auga], a precocious profferer of the wound-flame [SWORD > WARRIOR], who hates a red ring, surpasses all men in strength.
readings
[1] líz (‘lizt’): so 147, leizt 1824b
notes
[1] líz ‘seems’: Third pers. sg. pres. tense of lítaz. Rafn (who was unaware of 147) and Vigfusson and Powell (who apparently did not make use of it) retain here the 1824b pret. reading leizt (‘seemed’), which makes tolerable but less good sense in the context; the pres. tense reading is adopted by all subsequent eds.