Framarr Lv 2VIII (Ket 35)/2 — vápnum ‘weapons’
Veifir þú vængjum; vápnum mun ek þér heita;
vafrar þú nú, víðflögull, sem vitir mik feigan.
Villr ertu, vígstari; vit munum sigr hafa;
hverf þú at Hængi; hann skal nú deyja.
Þú veifir vængjum; ek mun heita þér vápnum; þú vafrar nú, víðflögull, sem vitir mik feigan. Ertu villr, vígstari; vit munum hafa sigr; hverf þú at Hængi; hann skal nú deyja.
You flap your wings; I will promise you weapons; you hover about now, wide-flying one <eagle>, as if you knew me [to be] doomed. You are confused, slaughter-starling [RAVEN/EAGLE]; we two will have the victory; turn to Hœngr (‘Salmon’), he must now die.
notes
[2] ek mun heita þér vápnum ‘I will promise you weapons’: Kock (NN §2396) interprets the verb heita here, as in a similar context in GrL 5/2, not as the strong verb ‘name, promise’ but rather as the weak verb ‘heat, brew’. He maintains that heita ‘brew’ is used in this stanza absolutely (i.e. without a direct object) and metaphorically of the ‘drink’ Ketill is ‘brewing’ (or for the ‘feast’ he is ‘preparing’) for the eagle with his weapons, and adduces Ket 36/1-2 to support this interpretation: Dregz þú nú, Dragvendill, | við krás arnar ‘You are drawn now, Dragvendill, for the delicacies of the eagle [CORPSES]’; cf. such phrases as ætt ara | oddom saddak ‘to satiate the family of the eagles with weapon-points’ in HHund II 8/7-8 (NK 152). Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) emends the line to vápnum munk þik beita ‘I will attack you with weapons’, i.e. he alters not only the verb from heita to beita ‘let bite’, but also the pron. þér (dat.) to the acc. þik.