Hvati, hǫfuðhvessingr, hausamølvir,
hræva-Gautr, herbrái ok hold-Mímir,
bensœgr, brigðir, Brimir, huglognir,
skyggðir, skreyfir, skarðr, grindlogi.
Hvati, hǫfuðhvessingr, hausamølvir, hræva-Gautr, herbrái ok hold-Mímir, bensœgr, brigðir, Brimir, huglognir, skyggðir, skreyfir, skarðr, grindlogi.
Quick one, head-sharpener, crusher of skulls, Gautr of corpses, war-shining one and flesh-Mímir, wound-strip, fickle one, Brimir, clinch-failer, polished one, heaper, notched one, gate-flame.
[1] hvati (m.) ‘quick one’: Cf. the adj. hvatr ‘quick’, hvati m. ‘haste, hurry’, and the weak verb hvata ‘hasten’. Hvati occurs once as the base-word in a man-kenning (Egill Hfl 19/3V (Eg 52)), but it is not attested as a heiti for ‘sword’.