Eil Þdr 9III/3 — setrs ‘of the seat’
Óðu fast, en Fríðar
flaut, eiðsvara Gauta
setrs víkingar snotrir
sverðrunnit fen, gunnar.
Þurði hrǫnn at herði
hauðrs run*kykva nauðar
jarðar skafls af afli
áss hretviðri blásin,
Eiðsvara víkingar setrs Gauta, snotrir gunnar, óðu fast, en sverðrunnit fen Fríðar flaut. Hretviðri blásin hrǫnn áss þurði af afli at herði nauðar skafls jarðar hauðrs run*kykva,
The oath-bound vikings of the seat of Gauti <= Óðinn> [= Ásgarðr > = Þórr and Þjálfi], wise in war, waded firmly, and the sword-filled fen of Fríðr <female mythical being> [RIVER] flowed. The tempest-blown wave of the ridge [RIVER] rushed mightily at the strengthener of the distress [TORMENTOR] of the quickeners of the stream of the land of the snow-drift of the earth [(lit. ‘stream-quickeners of the land of the snow-drift of the earth’) RIDGE > MOUNTAIN > RIVER > GIANTESSES > = Þórr],
notes
[2-3] setrs Gauta ‘of the seat of Gauti <= Óðinn> [= Ásgarðr]’: This edn follows the interpretations of Sveinbjörn Egilsson (1851, 17), Finnur Jónsson (1900b, 387; Skj B) and Reichardt (1948, 355). Although Gautr is attested more often than Gauti as a name for Óðinn (LP: Gauti), this interpretation is more convincing than that of Kock (NN §451), who combines setrs with gunnar to form the shield-kenning setrs gunnar ‘of the seat of battle’. This cannot be a kenning for ‘shield’, however, because the base-word setr ‘seat’ in a shield-kenning requires a weapon (sword, spear) as its determinant (Meissner 169).
kennings
- setrs Gauta, — of the seat of Gauti <= Óðinn>, [= Ásgarðr]
- Eiðsvara víkingar setrs Gauta, — The oath-bound vikings of the seat of Gauti <= Óðinn>, [= Þórr and Þjálfi]
grammar
case: gen.