Refr Ferðv 5III/3 — vetrliði ‘the bear’
Hrynja fjǫll á fyllar;
framm œsisk nú Glamma
skeið vetrliði skíða;
skaut bjǫrn Gusis nauta.
Fjǫll hrynja á fyllar; nú œsisk vetrliði skíða framm skeið Glamma; bjǫrn nauta Gusis skaut.
Mountains fall into the sea; now the bear of planks [SHIP] rushes forward on the race-course of Glammi <sea-king> [SEA]; the bear of the gifts of Gusir <legendary king> [ARROWS > = Ǫrvar-Oddr] shot.
notes
[3] vetrliði skíða ‘the bear of planks [SHIP]’: Vetrliði (lit. ‘winter-walker’; see the explanation in Fritzner: vetrliði) is given in Þul Bjarnar 1/10 as a heiti for ‘bear’. The determinant is problematic here, because although skíð ‘plank’ does appear in ship-kennings, it is always a base-word with such determinants as ‘sea-king’ or ‘sea’ and never a determinant as in the present kenning. Because skíða can only be gen. pl. of skíð n. ‘thin board’ and vetrliði must be determined somehow, one must assume that skíð is a variation of borð ‘ship-plank’ here.
kennings
- vetrliði skíða — the bear of planks [SHIP]
grammar
case: nom.