SnSt Ht 61III/1 — fellr ‘approaches’
Hræljóma fellr hrími; tími
hár vex of gram sára ára;
frost nemr of hlyn Hristar Mistar
herkaldan þrǫm skjaldar aldar.
Gullsendir brýtr grundar Hrundar
gunnveggs stǫfum leggi hreggi;
sóknvallar spyrk svelli elli
— svá skotnar þat — gotna þrotna.
Hrími hræljóma fellr; hár tími ára sára vex of gram; frost Mistar nemr herkaldan þrǫm skjaldar aldar of hlyn Hristar. Gullsendir brýtr leggi stǫfum gunnveggs hreggi grundar Hrundar; spyrk elli gotna þrotna svelli sóknvallar; svá skotnar þat.
The hostility of the corpse-gleam [SWORD > BATTLE] approaches; the opportune time of oars of wounds [SWORDS > BATTLE] increases around the ruler; the frost of Mist <valkyrie> [SWORD] hits the mightily cold rim of the shield of the men around the maple of Hrist <valkyrie> [WARRIOR]. The gold-dispenser [GENEROUS MAN] breaks the legs of staves of the battle-wall [SHIELD > WARRIORS] during the storm of the ground of Hrund <valkyrie> [SHIELD > BATTLE]; I hear that people’s old age is cut short by the ice-sheet of the attack-meadow [SHIELD > SWORD]; thus it turns out.
readings
[1] fellr: felr all
notes
[1] fellr ‘approaches’: Felr ‘hides, covers’ has been altered in R to fellr ‘approaches, arrives’ (R*). All mss originally read felr hræljóma hrími, which can be taken as an impersonal construction and translated as ‘the corpse-gleam [SWORD] is covered with rime’. That makes little sense in the context, but indicates an attempt at lectio facilior at an early stage in the scribal transmission. For falla ‘approach, arrive’, see Fritzner: falla 8. Snorri clearly played on the different meanings of this verb (falla ‘fall’, falla ‘approach’) as well as those of hrími ‘hostility’ and hrím ‘rime’, i.e. ‘battle approaches’, ‘rime falls’ (see the similar play on the verb snýr ‘turns’ in st. 62/1 below).