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.
[7] svelli sóknvallar ‘by the ice-sheet of the attack-meadow [SHIELD > SWORD]’: Most earlier eds take sóknvǫllr ‘attack-meadow’ in a literal sense (‘battlefield’, hap. leg.; see LP: sóknvǫllr and SnE 2007, 149). Following Sveinbjörn Egilsson (SnE 1848, III), Möbius (SnE 1879-81, I, 81) and Konráð Gíslason (1895-7), Skj B (and, as an option, SnE 2007, 153: svellir) construes svelli as the dat. sg. of an agent noun, svellir ‘increaser’ and svelli sóknvallar ‘the increaser of the battlefield [WARRIOR]’ as the dat. object of skotnar (‘thus it turns out for the warrior’), which forces a quadripartite l. 7 (see NN §3262).
case: dat.