Svá brá viðr, at sýjur
seiðr renndi fram breiðar
jarðar; út at borði
Ulls mágs hnefar skullu.
Svá brá viðr, at seiðr jarðar renndi fram breiðar sýjur; hnefar mágs Ulls skullu út at borði.
So it came about, that the saithe of the earth [= Miðgarðsormr] made the broad rivetted planks slide forward; the fists of the kinsman of Ullr <god> [= Þórr] banged out on the gunwale.
[4] mágs Ulls ‘of the kinsman of Ullr <god> [= Þórr]’: According to Gylf (SnE 2005, 26), the god Ullr was Þórr’s stepson, the son of his wife Sif by a former, but unknown alliance. A mágr is a relative by marriage.