Hlöðr var þar borinn í Húnalandi
saxi ok með sverði, síðri brynju,
hjálmi hringreifðum, hvössum mæki,
mari veltömum á mörk inni helgu.
Hlöðr var borinn þar í Húnalandi með saxi ok sverði, síðri brynju, hringreifðum hjálmi, hvössum mæki, mari veltömum á inni helgu mörk.
Hlǫðr was born there in the land of the Huns with short-sword and with sword, with long mailcoat, with ring-adorned helmet, with sharp sword, with a horse well tamed in the holy forest.
[5] hringreifðum ‘ring-adorned’: Hap. leg. Possibly refers to a chain-mail cheek and neck guard such as found on the seventh-century helmet Valsgärde 6 (for description see Arwidsson 1934) or, probably, on the tenth-century helmet from Gjermundbu, Norway (Grieg 1947, 3-4), the only Viking-Age helmet so far found in Scandinavia.