Þul Sverða 6III/2 — mál ‘ornamented’
Mímungr ok fellir ok málvitnir,
taurarr, hrævarðr, trani, vindþvari,
liðnir, Kvernbiti, ljómi, herðir,
vitnir, yfrir, veggjalestir.
Mímungr ok fellir ok málvitnir, taurarr, hrævarðr, trani, vindþvari, liðnir, Kvernbiti, ljómi, herðir, vitnir, yfrir, veggjalestir.
Mímungr and feller and ornamented wolf, taurar, corpse-wrapped one, crane, wind-borer, one belonging to an army, Kvernbiti, brightness, hardened one, wolf, overcomer, damager of walls.
readings
[2] mál‑: malm‑ B
notes
[2] málvitnir (m.) ‘ornamented wolf’: A kenning whose base-word is vitnir m. ‘wolf’ and the determinant from mál n. ‘ornament, drawing’. For vitnir ‘wolf’, see Þul Vargs 1/2 and vitnir among the sword-heiti (l. 7 below), as well as vargr ‘wolf’ (st. 11/7). Neither vitnir nor vargr otherwise occurs as terms for ‘sword’. The B variant malmvitnir ‘metal-wolf’ is not attested elsewhere, and the LaufE mss, which have (normalised) málvitnir, show that this is a scribal innovation (lectio facilior) in B.