Hringtælir gaf hálu
hlýrsólar mér dýra;
oss kom Hrund til handa
hræpolls drifin golli,
sút þás Herjans hattar …
Hringtælir gaf mér dýra hálu hlýrsólar; Hrund hræpolls, drifin golli, kom oss til handa, þás sút hattar Herjans …
The ring-trickster [GENEROUS MAN] gave me a precious troll-woman of the prow-sun [SHIELD > AXE]; the Hrund <valkyrie> of the carrion-pool [BLOOD > AXE], decorated with gold, came into our [my] hands, when the sorrow of Herjann’s <= Óðinn’s> hat [HELMET > WEAPON] …
[5] þás ‘when’: As Finnur Jónsson (TGT 1927, 98) points out, this could also be a rel. construction, f. acc. sg. ‘which’, referring back to hálu ‘troll-woman’ (l. 1).