Mál es at segja manna heiti:
greppar ok gumnar, gumar ok drengir,
gotnar, rekkar, garpar, seggir,
sveit, snillingar ok sælkerar.
Mál es at segja heiti manna: greppar ok gumnar, gumar ok drengir, gotnar, rekkar, garpar, seggir, sveit, snillingar ok sælkerar.
It is time to say the names for men: poets and gumnar, gumar and bold men, gotnar, upright men, champions, men, troop, valiant ones and affluent ones.
[5] gotnar: gotnar ok A, ‘[…] ok’ B, gotar ok 744ˣ
[5] gotnar: Or gotar (pl. of goti), originally ‘Goths’. In Skm (SnE 1998, I, 105), however, the heiti is derived from the name of a King Goti, which is one of Óðinn’s names (see Þul Óðins 1/6). The word is frequently used in poetry as a collective term for ‘men’.