Þrífiz hvárgi Þjassa dóttir
brúðir verstar; brátt skal ek reiðaz.
Rétt skal ek ykr, áðr röðull skíni,
vörgum senda víst til bráðar.
Þrífiz hvárgi dóttir Þjassa, verstar brúðir; ek skal brátt reiðaz. Ek skal víst senda ykr rétt til bráðar vörgum, áðr röðull skíni.
May neither daughter of Þjazi <giant> [GIANTESS] thrive, the worst women; I shall fly into a rage quickly. I will certainly dispatch you two straight as meat for wolves before the sun shines.
[2] Þjassa ‘of Þjazi <giant>’: This name is written with <ss> (or <sss>) in all mss of GrL; such forms as Þjassi (nom.) are a later variant (c. 1250 and later, ANG §274.2) of Þjazi, the name of a giant whom the gods eventually kill after a series of hostile encounters or dealings with him related in Þjóð Haustl 1-13III; cf. SnE 1998, I, 1-2 and Bragi Frag 2III. In that myth Þjazi’s daughter Skaði seeks to take vengeance for him. In GrL 2 Feima states that her father is named Hrímnir; when Grímr refers to her and her sister here as (hvárgi) dóttir Þjassa ‘(neither) daughter of Þjazi’, this pers. n. stands for any giant name and is the determinant of a giantess-kenning.