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.
[2] hausamølvir: so Tˣ, A, B, hausamǫlnir R
[2] hausamølvir (m.) ‘crusher of skulls’: So Tˣ, A, B. An otherwise unattested cpd from hauss m. ‘skull’ (hausa- gen. pl.) and the weak verb mølva ‘shiver, break’ (ModIcel. mölva ‘shatter, crush’), which in Old Norse occurs only in poetry (cf. Goth. gamalwjan ‘crush’; AEW: mølva). The R variant ‑mǫlnir may be a scribal error for ‑molnir from the weak verb molna ‘crumble’, hence ‘-grinder(?)’ (so SnE 1998, II, 303).