Eyv Hák 20I/3 — Fenrisulfr ‘The wolf Fenrir’
Mun óbundinn á ýta sjǫt
Fenrisulfr fara,
áðr jafngóðr á auða trǫð
konungmaðr komi.
Fenrisulfr mun fara óbundinn á sjǫt ýta, áðr jafngóðr konungmaðr komi á auða trǫð.
The wolf Fenrir, unbound, will enter the abode of men before so good a royal person comes onto the vacant path.
notes
[3] Fenrisulfr ‘the wolf Fenrir’: The release of the wolf marks Ragnarǫk and the end of the world: see Note to Anon Eirm 7/4, and SnE 2005, 27-9 for the binding of Fenrir. Magnus Olsen (1945b, 185) argued that the reference to the release of Fenrir is intended more specifically to invite comparison of Hákon góði to Baldr inn góði, before whose death there were no feiknstafir ‘afflictions’ (compare the hard times described in the next stanza; on Baldr see Note to Anon Eirm 3/5).