Synðir því valda, at vér hryggvir förum
ægisheimi ór;
engi óttaz, nema ilt geri;
gótt er vammalausum vera.
Synðir valda því, at vér förum hryggvir ór ægisheimi; engi óttaz, nema ilt geri; gótt er vera vammalausum.
Sins cause this, that sorrowful we journey out of the terrible world; no-one is afraid, unless he does wrong; it is good to be without stains.
[3] ægisheimi (dat. sg.) ‘terrible world’: A hap. leg., perhaps calqued on œgishjálmr lit. ‘helmet of terror’, the helmet owned by Fáfnir in Fáfn 16, 17, and related to œgir (LP: skrækindjager ‘one who induces terror’).