Þul Sverða 9III/6 — nár ‘corpse’
Fellir, fǫlvir, Fáfnir, raufnir,
ímnir, eimnir, afspringr, þinurr,
sigðir, snyrtir, svelgr, skarr ok nár,
Góinn, gest-Móinn ok gárr, þrimarr, Níðhǫggr.
Fellir, fǫlvir, Fáfnir, raufnir, ímnir, eimnir, afspringr, þinurr, sigðir, snyrtir, svelgr, skarr ok nár, Góinn, gest-Móinn ok gárr, þrimarr, Níðhǫggr.
Feller, pale one, Fáfnir, piercer, battler, flamer, afspringr, fir, scythe, polisher, swallower, cutter and corpse, Góinn, guest-Móinn and rippled one, thunderer, Níðhǫggr.
readings
[6] nár: so C, A, 744ˣ, narr R, Tˣ, ‘[…]ar’ B
notes
[6] nár (m.) ‘corpse’: So C, A and B (and adopted in Skj B, Skald and SnE 1998). Mss R and Tˣ have ‘narr’ (‘skarr ok narr’), which cannot be construed as an Old Norse word. It is not clear how ‘corpse’ can be a term for ‘sword’, however, and neither nár or narr occurs as sword-heiti in other sources. Falk (1914b, 56) argues that the correct form is naðr m. ‘adder, snake’. He finds support for that emendation in the sword-name Naðr in Egils saga (Eg, ÍF 2, 136, 141, 204) and in HólmgB Lv 8/1, 4V (Korm 43) eggjar naðrs ‘edges of the sword’, as well as in the other names of serpents listed in this stanza (see ll. 2, 7-8).