Knôttu ǫll, en Ullar,
endilôg, fyr mági
grund vas grápi hrundin,
ginnunga vé brinna,
þás hofregin hafrar
hógreiðar framm drógu
— seðr gekk Svǫlnis ekkja
sundr — at Hrungnis fundi.
Ǫll endilôg vé ginnunga knôttu brinna, en grund vas hrundin grápi fyr mági Ullar, þás hafrar drógu framm hofregin hógreiðar at fundi Hrungnis; ekkja Svǫlnis gekk seðr sundr.
All sanctuaries of hawks, low from end to end [SKIES/HEAVENS] were burning, and the ground was battered with hail in front of the kinsman of Ullr <god> [= Þórr], when the goats drew forward the temple-deity of the comfortable chariot [= Þórr] to a meeting with Hrungnir; the widow of Svǫlnir <= Óðinn> [= Jǫrð (jǫrð ‘earth’)] split asunder at once.
[7] ekkja Svǫlnis ‘the widow of Svǫlnir <= Óðinn> [= Jǫrð (jǫrð ‘earth’)]’: The word ekkja ‘widow’ may be used here in the sense ‘abandoned or alternative wife’ (cf. SnE 1998, II, 264) or it may simply mean ‘woman’ or ‘wife’. The personified Earth (Jǫrð) was thought of as one of Óðinn’s many partners and the mother of Þórr.