Þdís Þórr 2III/6 — Hyrrokkin ‘Hyrrokkin’
Ball í Keilu kolli,
Kjallandi brauzt alla,
áðr drapt Lút ok Leiða,
lézt dreyra Búseyru,
heptir Hengjankjǫptu,
Hyrrokkin dó fyrri,
þó vas snemr in sáma
Svívǫr numin lífi.
Ball í kolli Keilu, brauzt alla Kjallandi, áðr drapt Lút ok Leiða, lézt dreyra Búseyru, heptir Hengjankjǫptu, Hyrrokkin dó fyrri, þó vas snemr in sáma Svívǫr numin lífi.
There was a clang on Keila’s crown, you broke all of Kjallandi, you had already killed Lútr and Leiði, you caused Búseyra to bleed, you bring Hengjankjǫpta to a halt, Hyrrokkin had died previously, yet the swarthy Svívǫr was [even] earlier deprived of life.
readings
[6] Hyrrokkin: ‘hyr rærin’ U
notes
[6] Hyrrokkin: ‘One withered by fire’. Cf. Þul Trollkvenna 2/1 and Note. Name of the giantess who attended the god Baldr’s cremation riding on a wolf with snakes for reins, and managed to launch the god’s funeral ship. This enraged Þórr, who was restrained from killing her then and there, according to Gylf (SnE 2005, 46). Úlfr Uggason treats this subject in Húsdr 11, although he does not name the giantess. It is not known whether Þorbjǫrn is referring to this occasion or to some other, when he says that Hyrrokkin had died previously. It is generally assumed that the Viking-Age carving on DR 284, originally from Hunnestad, Skåne (see DRI I, 284), and now in Lund, represents Hyrrokkin riding the wolf with snakes for reins.