Bragi Frag 6III/2 — vazt ‘of the fishing ground’
Þann áttak vin verstan
vazt- rǫdd en mér baztan
Ála -undirkúlu
óniðraðan þriðja.
Áttak þann vin þriðja óniðraðan, verstan rǫdd Ála vazt-undirkúlu en baztan mér.
I had that friend, the third one, blameless, worst to the voice of the Áli <sea-king> of the fishing ground-under-knob [ROCK > GIANT > GOLD], but best to me.
readings
[2] vazt rǫdd: ‘vatzravðla’ R, ‘vazraud’ Tˣ, ‘uaz rodd’ W, ‘[…]atzt rodd’ U
notes
[2] vazt- ‘the fishing ground-’: The scribes experienced considerable difficulty with this word and the following rǫdd ‘voice’, in spite of Snorri’s prose explanation. Although vazt is connected with undirkúlu (l. 3) by tmesis (see below), as the prose text makes clear, the scribes of R and Tˣ, at least, understood it to form a cpd with the immediately following word. The various ms. forms of the first element can probably be explained (so SnE 1998, I, 141 textual n.) as implying a first element vatns- < vatn ‘water’. However, both the prose gloss and the probability of aðalhending (vazt /bazt-) favour the lectio difficilior vazt < vǫzt (or vǫst) f. (pl. vaztir) ‘fishing ground’, by extension ‘sea’ (so LP: vǫst; SnE 1998, II, 432).
kennings
- vazt-undirkúlu — of the fishing ground-under-knob, [ROCK]
- Ála vazt-undirkúlu — of the Áli <sea-king> of the fishing ground-under-knob, [GIANT]
- rǫdd Ála vazt-undirkúlu — to the voice of the Áli <sea-king> of the fishing ground-under-knob, [GOLD]