[All]: Kock (NN §896), attempting to make the word order less disjointed, construes blóði ‘blood’ (l. 4) with fellr ‘falls’ (l. 4) (hence ‘falls in blood’), and allmǫrg ‘very many’ (l. 2) with øx ‘axe’ (l. 1), hence ‘very many an axe’.
References
- Bibliography
- NN = Kock, Ernst Albin. 1923-44. Notationes Norrœnæ: Anteckningar till Edda och skaldediktning. Lunds Universitets årsskrift new ser. 1. 28 vols. Lund: Gleerup.