Sámleitum rauð sveita
— sleit ǫrn Gera beitu —
— fekksk arnar matr jǫrnum —
Jarnsǫxu grǫn faxa.
Rauð grǫn sámleitum faxa Jarnsǫxu sveita; ǫrn sleit beitu Gera; matr arnar fekksk jǫrnum.
He reddened the whiskers of Jarnsaxa’s <troll-woman’s> swarthy steed [WOLF] with blood; an eagle tore Geri’s <wolf’s> bait [CORPSES]; food of the eagle [CORPSES] was provided by weapons.
[4] faxa: so Tˣ, U, A, B, fǫxu R, C
[4] faxa (m. gen. sg.) ‘steed’: So Tˣ, U, A, B. Faxi is a horse (lit. ‘one with a mane’). Fǫxu (R, C) cannot be construed in any meaningful way and must be the result of scribal confusion and an attempt to create aðalhending with -sǫxu.
case: dat.