Svá mun fár feril
fetum suðr metinn
hringdrífr hafa.
Hǫfuðfremstr jǫfurr.
Fár hringdrífr mun hafa svá metinn feril suðr fetum. Hǫfuðfremstr jǫfurr ...
Few ring-distributors [GENEROUS RULERS] will have thus measured the route south with their steps. The most eminent prince ...
[2] metinn ‘measured’: Hofmann (1955, 92-3) suggests influence here from OE metan ‘to measure, traverse’: ‘to traverse’ is a meaning distinctive to poetry in OE (see e.g. Beowulf ll. 514, 917, 1633, Beowulf 2008, 20, 32, 55).