Brandr fær logs ok landa
lands Eireki banda.
Brandr fær Eireki logs banda lands ok landa.
The sword gains for Eiríkr the flame of the bonds of the land [SEA > GOLD] and lands.
[2] banda lands ‘of the bonds of the land [SEA]’: A typical sea-kenning (cf. ÞSjár Þórdr 1/2I band landa ‘chain of lands [SEA]’), though the pl. base-word banda is unusual (cf. Meissner 94) and could have been caused by metrical demands (a disyllabic word needed in the cadence). Björn Magnússon Ólsen (TGT 1884, 205-6) obtains the same sense by adopting the A reading land (l. 2) and assuming a cpd landband ‘land-bond’ with tmesis (so also Finnur Jónsson, TGT 1927, 102).