Sverð ok gelmingr ok samnagli,
hugró, sigrhnoð, hjalt ok tangi,
mundriðr, hǫggstaðr ok meðalkafli.
Sverð ok gelmingr ok samnagli, hugró, sigrhnoð, hjalt ok tangi, mundriðr, hǫggstaðr ok meðalkafli.
Sword and clamourer and link-rivet, clinch-plate, victory-knob, hilt and tang, hand-waver, strike-place and middle-stick.
[5] hǫggstaðr: so A, ‘havgfaðr’ R, ‘haugfadr’ Tˣ, ‘hauggfadr’ C, ‘ho᷎[…]stadr’ B, ‘ho᷎gstaðr’ 744ˣ
[5] hǫggstaðr (m.) ‘strike-place’: So A, B (744ˣ) (adopted by Falk 1914b, 16-17, Skj B and Skald). The first element of the cpd is hǫgg n. ‘strike, blow’ and the second is staðr m. ‘place’. This is a term for the broadest part of the blade. Cf. Karlamagnús saga (Unger 1860, 116): En þat sverð var faðms langt í millum hjalts ok hǫggstaðar ‘And that sword was a fathom long between the hilt and the strike-place’. The R, Tˣ, C variant (adopted in SnE 1998) hǫggfáðr lit. ‘strike-coloured’, i.e. ‘blood-stained’, does not occur elsewhere.