Á sá hann falla eitri blandna;
fákr sparn fótum foldar sveita.
Hann sá á falla, blandna eitri; fákr sparn sveita foldar fótum.
He saw a river flow, mixed with poison; the horse kicked the blood of the earth [WATER] with its feet.
[4] foldar: ‘–’ 1496ˣ
[4] sveita foldar ‘the blood of the earth [WATER]’: The 2368ˣ, 743ˣ variant, dreyra foldar ‘gore of the earth’, is an equally good reading, but could have been caused by the kenning dreyra dals ‘gore of the valley [WATER]’ in Anon (LaufE) 10/3 (see Note to l. 1 above). Ms. 1496ˣ has an open space with a horizontal line, followed by the word dreyra.