Emjar, þremjar ok Ǫlrøðarnautr,
merki, véttrim ok missifengr,
ónn ok skafningr, undirdregningr,
vargr ok Kaldhamarsnautr, valbǫst ok herðr.
Emjar, þremjar ok Ǫlrøðarnautr, merki, véttrim ok missifengr, ónn ok skafningr, undirdregningr, vargr ok Kaldhamarsnautr, valbǫst ok herðr.
Howls, cutters and Ǫlrøðr’s gift, mark, battle-rim and mis-hitting one, ónn and polished one, under-drawn one, wolf and Kaldhamarr’s gift, sword-hilt panel and shoulder.
[1] þremjar: fremjar C
[1] þremjar (f. pl.) ‘cutters’: A poetic name for a part of the sword, which probably denotes a double-edged blade (cf. þrǫmr m. ‘edge, rim’, but see Finnur Jónsson 1917, 191). The C variant fremjar is most likely a scribal error (cf. the weak verb fremja ‘further’; but cf. ÍO: fremjar). Þremjar occurs frequently in sword-kennings and sometimes it is possibly used as pars pro toto for ‘sword’ (cf. stormr þremja ‘storm of cutters [BATTLE]’, HSt Rst 21/4I; see Falk 1914b, 16).