Þar í mǫrk fyrir markar
málhvettan byr settu
(né hvélvǫlur Hallar
háfs) skotnaðra (svôfu).
Knátti, hreggi hǫggvin*,
hlymþél við mǫl glymja,
en fellihryn fjalla
Feðju þaut með steðja.
Þar settu skotnaðra í mǫrk háfs fyrir málhvettan byr markar; né svôfu hvélvǫlur Hallar. Hlymþél knátti glymja við mǫl, en hreggi hǫggvin* fellihryn fjalla þaut með steðja Feðju.
There they set shot-adders [SPEARS] in the borderland of the fish trap [RIVER] against the chattering wind of the borderland [RIVER]; the wheel-knuckles of Hǫll <river> [STONES] did not sleep. The din-file [SPEAR] resounded against the gravel, and the storm-blasted toppling-noise of the mountains [RIVER] roared against the anvil of Fedje <river> [ROCK].
[3] Hallar: so W, ‘halar’ R, Tˣ
[3] hvélvǫlur Hallar ‘the wheel-knuckles of Hǫll <river> [STONES]’: Hvél- ‘wheel’ refers to the round shape of pebbles, and the second element, ‑vǫlur, is nom. pl. of vala f. ‘bone, knuckle’. Hvélvǫlur (so NN §447; Guðmundur Finnbogason 1924, 176; Kiil 1956, 112-13) cannot mean ‘stones’ by itself and needs a determinant. This edn follows Reichardt (1948, 350) who interprets ‘hallar’ (so W) as gen. of the river-name Hǫll (Grí 27).