Þjóð Haustl 12III/6 — Reginn ‘the Reginn’
Heyrðak svá, þat síðan
sveik apt ása leiku
hugreynandi Hœnis
hauks flugbjalfa aukinn.
Ok lómhugaðr lagði
leikblaðs Reginn fjaðrar
ern at ǫglis barni
arnsúg faðir Mǫrnar.
Heyrðak svá, þat hugreynandi Hœnis, aukinn flugbjalfa hauks, síðan sveik apt leiku ása. Ok lómhugaðr faðir Mǫrnar, Reginn leikblaðs fjaðrar, lagði ern arnsúg at barni ǫglis.
I have heard thus, that the thought-trier of Hœnir [= Loki], strengthened with a hawk’s flight-skin [WINGS], afterwards recovered the playmate of the gods [= Iðunn] by trickery. And the deceit-minded father of Mǫrn <= Skaði> [= Þjazi], the Reginn <legendary smith> of the play-blade of the feather [WING > GIANT = Þjazi], directed a swift eagle-sucking at the hawk’s child [HAWK = Loki].
readings
[6] Reginn: regin Tˣ
notes
[6] Reginn leikblaðs fjaðrar ‘the Reginn <legendary smith> of the play-blade of the feather [WING > GIANT = Þjazi]’: An unusual kenning, dependent for its meaning on the details of the underlying myth. Reginn has been treated here as the pers. n. of the legendary and evil smith, foster-father of Sigurðr and brother to Fáfnir (and also a dwarf-name, see Note to Þul Dverga 6/4). As such, Reginn is an appropriate base-word for a kenning for the giant Þjazi. Leikblað fjaðrar ‘play-blade of the feather’ is without parallel as a kenning-type, but must refer to the beating of the eagle’s wings in flight. Finnur Jónsson (Skj B; 1933, 1-2) transposes leik- from blað to reginn on the ground that ‘Reginn of the wing’ is not an appropriate kenning for a giant and construes ern leikreginn blaðs fjaðrar ‘the swift play-Reginn of the blade of the feather’. Marold (1983, 167) argues that, if leik- is understood as a verbal addition to the wing-kenning, it is not irregular in terms of kenning-type.
kennings
- Reginn leikblaðs fjaðrar, — the Reginn <legendary smith> of the play-blade of the feather, [GIANT = Þjazi]
grammar
case: nom.