ǪrvOdd Lv 8VIII (Ǫrv 40)/6 — Hadding ‘Haddingr’
Slóttu við meyjar málþing, Sæólfr,
meðan loga létum leika of kynnum.
Unnum harðan Hadding drepinn,
ok Ölvi var aldrs um synjat.
Slóttu málþing við meyjar, Sæólfr, meðan létum loga leika of kynnum. Unnum harðan Hadding drepinn, ok Ölvi var um synjat aldrs.
You carried on assignations with girls, Sjólfr, while we made flames play around families. We killed the hardy Haddingr and Ǫlvir was deprived of life.
readings
[6] Hadding: hilding 7, Hunding 344a, 471
notes
[6] Hadding ‘Haddingr’: A well-known name in Old Norse mythical-heroic literature, although the identity of the Haddingr involved in this incident is uncertain. Two Haddingjar are named in Ǫrv 5/6 as among the berserk brothers that fought against Oddr and Hjálmarr on Samsø. See Note to this line. Both 344a and 471 give the hero’s name as Hundingr, attested from the Helgi poems of the Poetic Edda (Kommentar IV, 102), as a sea-king name (SnE 1998, II, 481) and as an ethnic name, Hunding, as in the Old English Wīdsīð 23, while 7 has the common noun hilding, ‘chief, hero’.