Brynja, kund, hjalmgǫll, hrauð ok náin,
kǫld, Finnsleif, …
bǫðfara, þýðsýn ok blóðleika.
Brynja, kund, hjalmgǫll, hrauð ok náin, kǫld, Finnsleif … bǫðfara, þýðsýn ok blóðleika.
Mail-shirt, intimate friend, helmet-clang, covering one and near one, cold one, Finnsleif (‘Finnr’s legacy’) … battle-goer, pleasant-sight and blood-playmate.
[2] hrauð: ‘ok hvø̨ð’ A, ‘ok huo᷎d’ B
[2] hrauð (f.) ‘covering’: Not attested in prose and not found elsewhere as a heiti for ‘mail-shirt’. The word may be related to OE hrēða ‘garment made from goat-skin’ (see AEW: hrauð and Falk 1914b, 174). Hrauð is also recorded in Þul Skipa 3/2 (see Note there).