Ái ok áttungr, afi, sonr, faðir,
bróðir, barmi, blóði ok lifri,
jóð, burr, nefi ok arfuni;
þá eru hlýrar ok hǫfuðbaðmar.
Ái ok áttungr, afi, sonr, faðir, bróðir, barmi, blóði ok lifri, jóð, burr, nefi ok arfuni; þá eru hlýrar ok hǫfuðbaðmar.
Great-grandfather and kinsman, grandfather, son, father, brother, bosom-brother, consanguinean and cognate, baby, son, nephew and inheritor; then there are twins and agnates.
[8] ok hǫfuðbaðmar: ‘[…]’ B, ‘ok hǫ᷎fut barmar’ 744ˣ
[8] hǫfuðbaðmar ‘agnates’: Perhaps lit. ‘head stems’ (from baðmr m. ‘tree, stem’, or baðmr = barmr (SnE 1998, II, 238); see barmi ‘bosom-brother’ in l. 3 above), i.e. the principal member of a clan, kinsman on the male side, a legal term for an agnate lineage.