Dagr reið Drǫsli en Dvalinn Móðni,
Hǫð Hjálmþér en Haki Fáki.
Reið bani Belja Blóðughófa
en Skævaði skati Haddingja.
Dagr reið Drǫsli en Dvalinn Móðni, Hjálmþér Hǫð en Haki Fáki. Bani Belja reið Blóðughófa en skati Haddingja Skævaði.
Dagr rode Drǫsull and Dvalinn Móðnir, Hjálmþér Hǫðr and Haki Fákr. The slayer of Beli <giant> [= Freyr] rode Blóðughófi and the champion of the Haddingjar <legendary family> [= Helgi] Skævaðr.
[1] Drǫsli: hrafni U
[1] Drǫsli ‘Drǫsull’: A variant form of Drasill, and the latter is given as a heiti for ‘horse’ in Þul Hesta 3/4. See AEW: drasill. The word also occurs as the second element in Yggdrasill lit. ‘Yggr’s horse’, the world ash-tree in Old Norse myth (see, among other sources, Vsp 19-20, 47). The U variant hrafni is clearly incorrect, and likely to have been caused by Hrafni in st. 3/1 below.