Hafreiðar vas hlœðir
hlunns í skírnar brunni,
Hvíta-Krists sás hæsta
hoddsviptir fekk giptu.
Hlœðir hafreiðar hlunns vas í brunni skírnar, hoddsviptir, sás fekk hæsta giptu Hvíta-Krists.
The loader of the sea-chariot of the slipway roller [SHIP > SEAFARER] was in the pool of baptism, the hoard-flinger [GENEROUS MAN], who received the highest grace of White-Christ.
[1] ‑reiðar: ‑ræðar U
[1] hafreiðar ‘of the sea-chariot’: The base-word of a ship-kenning, with hlunns ‘of the slipway roller’ as determinant. Because haf- ‘sea’ makes the kenning overdetermined (‘chariot of the slipway roller’ would be sufficient), eds have sought to interpret haf- as derived from the verb hefja ‘raise’ in the sense ‘lifting, moving up and down’ (so LP: 1. hafreið and SnE 1998, II, 299). However, hafreið occurs once elsewhere (ÞTref Hrafn 5/6V) clearly in the sense ‘sea-chariot’ (probably a kenning for ‘ship’), so the more obvious sense has been retained here. Kock (NN §428) emended hafreiðar to hôreiðar ‘of the high chariot’, but there is no ms. support for this emendation.
case: gen.