Þórr hefr Yggs með ôrum
Ásgarð af þrek varðan.
Þórr hefr varðan Ásgarð af þrek með ôrum Yggs.
Þórr has defended Ásgarðr with power together with the messengers of Yggr <= Óðinn> [GODS].
[1] Yggs: ‘ygs’ Tˣ
[1] ôrum Yggs ‘the messengers of Yggr <= Óðinn> [GODS]’: At first sight, this is probably a somewhat unusual kenning for the pagan gods who, with Þórr, defend their stronghold of Ásgarðr. However, if Þorbjǫrn was familiar with the teachings of Christianity when he composed this couplet, the kenning may have had a deliberate double entendre, playing on the meaning of the Lat. angelus ‘messenger, angel’.