Gamalla øxna nǫfn hefk gǫrla fregit:
þeira Rauðs ok Hœfis, Rekinn ok Kýrr,
Himinhrjóðr ok Apli, Arfr ok Arfuni.
Hefk gǫrla fregit nǫfn gamalla øxna: þeira Rauðs ok Hœfis, Rekinn ok Kýrr, Himinhrjóðr ok Apli, Arfr ok Arfuni.
I have learned precisely the names of ancient oxen: of Rauðr and Hœfir, Rekinn and Kýrr, Himinhrjóðr and Apli, Arfr ok Arfuni.
[6] Arfuni: ‘arfvínír’ C
[6] Arfuni: Perhaps lit. ‘heir’. As an ox-name the word is also recorded in Þul Øxna 3/4 but not found elsewhere. The pair Arfr ok Arfuni ‘Arfr and Arfuni’ most likely points to a semantic connection between these two heiti: ‘inheritance/cattle’ – ‘heir/bull’ (cf. NN §2158A). Alternatively, de Vries (AEW: arfr 2) suggests that arfuni (or ǫrfuni, so ms. A, Þul Øxna 3/4) might be derived from the root erf- in erfiði n. ‘toil, burden’ with the suffix ‑uni (from the weak verb una ‘be content with, be happy with’). If so, the name would mean ‘content with toil’.