Spurðak hraustan
…
þanns linns legu
lesti festi.
Lét opt jǫfurr
†ar† …
… sveita
saddan gladdan.
Spurðak hraustan … þanns lesti legu linns … festi. Jǫfurr lét opt †ar† … sveita gladdan saddan.
I heard that the brave … who injured the lair of the snake [GOLD] … fastened. The prince often made … … of blood gladdened, sated.
[4] festi ‘fastened’: It is not clear to which of the previous clauses festi ‘fastened, gave away’ (3rd pers. sg. pret. indic. of festa) or ‘fastener’ (m. acc. sg. of festir) belongs. Finnur Jónsson (Skj B) believed it to be the base-word in a warrior-kenning whose determinant was contained in l. 2. Jón Helgason (Hl 1941) concurred and conjectured a kenning festi jalma hjalma ‘the fastener of the helmets’ dins [BATTLE > WARRIOR]’, whereas Kock (NN §3116) took festi as a verb parallel with lesti ‘injured’ (l. 4).