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.
[5] bensœgr: ‘be[…]g[…]’ B, ‘bense᷎gr’ 744ˣ
[5] bensœgr (m.) ‘wound-strip’: So R and the majority of the ms. witnesses. An otherwise unattested cpd from ben f./n. ‘wound’ and sœgr m. ‘strip’ (cf. SnE 1998, II, 242). The C variant bensigr m. ‘wound-victory’ must be a lectio facilior.