Tungl gaft, tryggvinr engla,
talið dœgr megin lœgis,
— fekk hlýrnir stað stjǫrnum —
sterkr, ok aldir merkja.
Sterkr tryggvinr engla, gaft tungl merkja talið dœgr, megin lœgis ok aldir; hlýrnir fekk stjǫrnum stað.
Powerful faithful friend of angels [= God], you gave celestial bodies to mark the number of days and nights, the power of the sea and the ages; the sky found a place for the stars.
[3] hlýrnir fekk stjǫrnum stað ‘the sky found a place for the stars’: Cf. Vsp 5/7-8 (NK 2): stiǫrnor þat né visso, | hvar þær staði átto ‘the stars did not know where they should be placed’. For hlýrnir as a heiti for ‘sky, heaven’, see Note to Þul Himins I l. 13.