Øx, járnsparða ok jarðhyrna,
skjáfa ok skeggja, skráma ok genja,
reginspǫnn, Gnepja, gýgr ok fála,
snaga ok búlda, barða ok vígglǫð,
þveita ok þenja; þá es arghyrna;
hon es øfst talið øxar heita.
Øx, járnsparða ok jarðhyrna, skjáfa ok skeggja, skráma ok genja, reginspǫnn, Gnepja, gýgr ok fála, snaga ok búlda, barða ok vígglǫð, þveita ok þenja; þá es arghyrna; hon es talið øfst heita øxar.
Axe, iron-axe and earth-horn, scraper and bearded one, skráma and gaper, mighty-span, Gnepja, ogress and troll-woman, spiked one and bulging one, whiskered one and battle-bright one, hewer and stretching one; then there is weak-horn; this is listed as the last of the names for axe.
[10, 11] arghyrna ... øfst (f.) ‘weak-horn ... the last’: While the other mss have (normalised) øfst ‘last’, the reading in ms. R is (normalised) œzt ‘the highest’, which hardly fits the sense of arghyrna lit. ‘weak-horn’ (from the adj. argr ‘wretch, coward’ and hyrna ‘horn, corner of an axe’, see l. 1 above; Falk 1914b, 115). The heiti is otherwise known only from one of Skallagrímr’s lausavísur (Skall Lv 3/5V (Eg 6)), where it is a pejorative name for a defective snaghyrnd øx (on the latter term, see Note to l. 7 above).