Hjálm Lv 1VIII (Ǫrv 5)/7 — austr ‘in the east’
Hervarðr, Hjörvarðr, Hrani, Angantýr,
Bildr ok Bófi, Barri ok Tóki,
Tindr ok Tyrfingr, tveir Haddingjar:
þeir í Bólm austr bornir váru,
Arngríms synir ok Eyfuru.
Hervarðr, Hjörvarðr, Hrani, Angantýr, Bildr ok Bófi, Barri ok Tóki, Tindr ok Tyrfingr, tveir Haddingjar: þeir váru bornir austr í Bólm, synir Arngríms ok Eyfuru.
Hervarðr, Hjǫrvarðr, Hrani, Angantýr, Bildr and Bófi, Barri and Tóki, Tindr and Tyrfingr, the two Haddingjar: they were born in the east in Bólm, sons of Arngrímr and Eyfura.
notes
[7] í Bólm austr ‘in the east in Bólm’: In two mss of Heiðr, Hb and R715ˣ (Heiðr 1960, 3 and n. 2; Heiðr 1924, 2, 91) Bólm is said to be the name of an island, and is located off the coast of Hålogaland in northern Norway (cf. Þul Eyja 4/5III and Note). However, in this case a more plausible identification may be with the island of Bolmsö in Lake Bolmen in Småland, southern Sweden, because the background narrative to the encounter between Angantýr (or Hjǫrvarðr) and Hjálmarr is connected to their rivalry for the hand of the daughter of the king of Sweden. The line is metrically irregular (Type A) and it is possible that austr has been desyllabified to austur here.