Þeir er í Vifilsey váru lengi
ok hétu þar hunda nöfnum
Hoppr ok Hó.
Þeir er váru lengi í Vifilsey ok hétu þar nöfnum hunda Hoppr ok Hó.
They who were in Vifilsey for a long time and were called there by dogs’ names, Hoppr and Hó.
[5] Hoppr ok Hó ‘Hoppr and Hó’: The last line is perhaps not original. It is enclosed in square brackets in Skj B, while Skald omits the line altogether. The two names are appropriate to dogs; cf. ON hoppa ‘jump, dance’ (AEW: hoppa and references) and hóa ‘call’ and the exclamatory ho!