Skaut á grœnt með grjóti
grár ægir ná sôrum
(lôgu liðsmenn bjúgir)
land (sem brúk of strandir).
En fjaðrdøkkum flokkum
flugu hrafns at þat nafnar;
skygnum skœðasǫgnum
skógs fang gerðisk þangat.
Grár ægir skaut sôrum ná með grjóti á grœnt land; liðsmenn lôgu bjúgir sem brúk of strandir. En nafnar hrafns flugu at þat fjaðrdøkkum flokkum; fang gerðisk þangat skygnum skœðasǫgnum skógs.
The grey ocean cast a wounded corpse up with gravel on the green land; household troops lay twisted like heaps of seaweed across the beaches. And the namesakes of the raven [RAVENS] flew after that in feather-dark flocks; prey was produced there for the sharp-sighted harm-crew of the forest [WOLVES].
[8] fang: hang Bb
[8] fang ‘prey’: Finnur Jónsson’s emendation (Skj B). The line has only five syllables in the ms., and other eds emend to various forms of hangi m. ‘hanged man’. Kock (NN §2548) argues this is an Óðinn-name, Hangi ‘hanged one’, and the base-word of a man-kenning, while Gullberg (1875) emends the second and third words in this line to már hanga ‘gull of the hanged man [RAVEN]’. But the new ms. reading ‘giar’ (see following Note) suggests the third word in l. 8 begins with <g>.