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] brigðir (m.) ‘fickle one’: According to Falk (1914b, 48), the word is not an agent noun from the strong verb brigða (= bregða ‘brandish (a sword)’) but more likely related to the adj. brigðr ‘faithless, unsafe’ (see also brigð n. ‘change’ and huglognir ‘clinch-failer’, l. 6). It could also be an agent noun from the weak verb brigða ‘recover sth. by lawful procedure, make void, revoke, recant’. The word occurs twice in this list (see also st. 8/5), but it is not found elsewhere in Old Norse poetry. It is attested in the later rímur (Finnur Jónsson 1926-8: brigðir).