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.
[6] huglognir: ‘huðlognir’ Tˣ, ‘hv́ðlognir’ A, ‘hudlau[…]nir’ B, ‘hudlaugnir’ 744ˣ
[6] huglognir (m.) ‘clinch-failer’: A cpd not found elsewhere, whose first element is most likely *hugr (cf. hugró ‘clinch-plate’, st. 12/3), a metal clinch on a sword’s hilt. The second element must be an agent noun from a weak verb *logna derived from the p. p. loginn of the strong verb ljúga ‘lie’. Huglognir would then be a sword whose upper clinch was easily broken off (so Falk 1914b, 53; cf. ljúgfengr ‘fail-striking one’, st. 10/5). The Tˣ, A and B variant húðlognir m. means ‘skin-failer’ (so also the LaufE mss).