Enn kveð ek heita ǫll vápn saman
járn, ǫr ok slǫg, ísarn ok spjǫr.
Enn kveð ek ǫll vápn saman heita járn, ǫr ok slǫg, ísarn ok spjǫr.
Further, I say that all weapons together are called irons, arrow and strikes, iron and spears.
[3, 4] járn … ísarn ‘irons … iron’: The þula distinguishes between the common term for ‘iron’, járn n. (in the pl. this word means ‘weapons’) and the poetic variant ísarn. The latter is a loanword from West Germanic (cf. OE īsern, OHG īsarn ‘iron’).