Þars Mardallar milli
(meginhurðar) liggr skurða
(Gauts berum galla þrútinn)
grátr (dalreyðar látra).
Þars grátr Mardallar liggr milli skurða; berum galla meginhurðar Gauts, þrútinn látra dalreyðar.
Where the tears of Mardǫll <= Freyja> [GOLD] lie between the grooves; we [I] carry the destroyer of Gautr’s <= Óðinn’s> mighty door [SHIELD > AXE/SWORD], swollen with lairs of the valley-char [SNAKE > GOLD].
[1, 4] grátr Mardallar ‘the tears of Mardǫll <= Freyja> [GOLD]’: Lit. ‘the weeping of Mardǫll’. According to Old Norse myth, the goddess Freyja wept tears of gold for her husband, Óðr (SnE 2005, 29): Óðr fór í braut langar leiðir, en Freyja grætr eptir, en tár hennar er gull rautt ‘Óðr went away on long journeys, and Freyja weeps for him, and her tear is red gold’. See also Note to Anon Bjark 5/6.
case: nom.