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] hǫfuðhvessingr: so all others, ‘h[…]ssingr’ R
[1] hǫfuðhvessingr (m.) ‘head-sharpener’: Not otherwise attested as a cpd. The first part, hǫfuð-, is most likely an intensifying element (cf. Falk 1914b, 53), the second element is from the weak verb hvessa ‘sharpen’; hence ‘mighty sharpener’.