Þás élreifar ófu
Ægis dœtr ok tœttu
fǫls við frost of alnar
fjallgarðs rokur harðar.
Þás harðar rokur fǫls fjallgarðs ófu ok tœttu élreifar dœtr Ægis, of alnar við frost.
When hard whirlwinds from the white mountain range wove and tore apart the storm-happy daughters of Ægir <giant> [WAVES], nourished by frost.
[2] dœtr Ægis ‘daughters of Ægir <giant> [WAVES]’: Ægir was a giant, the personification of the sea. His wife Rán personified the sea’s destructive power, while Ægir’s daughters are the waves; cf. st. 3/1 below, HHund I 29/6 and Gestumbl Heiðr 8-10VIII, as well as Þul Sjóvar 4, Þul Waves and ESk Frag 17. In SnE 1998, I, 36, the prose text preceding the citation of this stanza names Ægir’s nine daughters, all with names suggesting the sea’s turbulence.
case: acc.
number: pl.