Logi ok mundgjallr, langhvass ok eldr,
ǫrn ok œgir ok naglfari,
brigðir, mǫrnir, blær ok skerðir,
hyrr ok helsingr, hríðir, atti.
Logi ok mundgjallr, langhvass ok eldr, ǫrn ok œgir ok naglfari, brigðir, mǫrnir, blær ok skerðir, hyrr ok helsingr, hríðir, atti.
Flame and hand-ringing one, long-sharp one and fire, eagle and frightener and nail-studded one, fickle one, crusher, blær and diminisher, blaze and long-neck, stormer, inciter.
[4] naglfari: nagfari C, ‘n[…]lfare’ B, ‘naglfare’ 744ˣ
[4] naglfari (m.) ‘nail-studded one’: Or ‘rivet-farer(?)’. Probably denoting a sword with a hilt decorated with rows of rivets (cf. OE Nægling, the name of Beowulf’s sword; see Beowulf 2008, 471 and references there). See Falk (1914b, 57) and Bragi Rdr 5/3 (see Note to ll. 3-4 there). Alternatively, Lie (1982, 340-1) takes the second element ‑fari in the sense ‘destroyer’ (cf. Fritzner: fara 13, 14) and interprets this heiti as ‘one who destroys spikes (naglar)’, i.e. ‘knife’. See also Note to Þul Skipa 1/7.