Höfðum vér allir inn efra hlut,
hvar sem Hildar … hlífar knúði.
Einn vissa ek jafnsnjallan gram,
Sigurð konung at sölum Gjúka.
Vér höfðum allir inn efra hlut, hvar sem … Hildar knúði hlífar. Ek vissa einn jafnsnjallan gram, Sigurð konung at sölum Gjúka.
We all had the better share wherever … of Hildr
[7-8] Sigurð konung at sölum Gjúka ‘King Sigurðr at Gjúki’s halls’: A reference to the legend of Sigurðr Fáfnisbani ‘Slayer of Fáfnir’ and his stay at the court of King Gjúki, where he formed a bond of blood-brotherhood with Gjúki’s son Gunnarr and wooed his daughter Guðrún, as told in Vǫls and several poems of the Poetic Edda. — [8] at sölum Gjúka ‘at Gjúki’s halls’: Cf. Gríp 43/4 (NK 170) í sǫlom Giúca ‘in Gjúki’s halls’.