Ek mun segja sverða heiti:
hjǫrr ok Hrotti, hǫguðr, Dragvandill,
gróa, Gramr, gellir, gjallr ok neðanskarðr,
sigðr ok Snyrtir, sómi, skjómi.
Ek mun segja heiti sverða: hjǫrr ok Hrotti, hǫguðr, Dragvandill, gróa, Gramr, gellir, gjallr ok neðanskarðr, sigðr ok Snyrtir, sómi, skjómi.
I shall say the names of swords: sword and Hrotti, useful one, Dragvandill, growing one, Gramr, yeller, clamouring one and end-notched one, sickle and Snyrtir, honour, glimmer.
[5] gróa (f.) ‘growing one’: The word is attested only as a f. pers. n. (of a prophetess, Svipdagr’s mother, in Grógaldr 1/1, and of a sorceress, the wife of Aurvandill in Skm, SnE 1998, I, 22). According to Falk (1914b, 51), the f. gender implies that the word ought to be a heiti for ‘axe’, and he believes that it could have been included among the sword-heiti by mistake.