Darr, spjót ok nǫt, dǫf, lenz ok vigr,
snata, fleinn ok sváf, sviða, hræmæki,
geirr, spjǫr, nata, gefja, kesja,
gaflak, frakka, Gungnir, peita.
Darr, spjót ok nǫt, dǫf, lenz ok vigr, snata, fleinn ok sváf, sviða, hræmæki, geirr, spjǫr, nata, gefja, kesja, gaflak, frakka, Gungnir, peita.
Dart, spear and sting, dǫf, lance and rod, spike, barb and one causing sleep, burn, corpse-sword, pike, javelin, stinging one, lance, halberd, javelin, Frankish [spear], Gungnir, [spear] from Poitou.
[7] frakka (f.) ‘Frankish [spear]’: Most likely a loanword from OE franca ‘lance, javelin’. It is possible that this term might have been identical with framea in Tacitus’ Germania (ch. 6; see Falk 1914b, 75). Other than in the present þula, the only reliable attestation in Old Norse is found in Rþ 35/8 (NK 285) frǫccor dýia ‘[he began] to shake Frankish spears’. Cf. also the weak m. form frakki in the cpd hræfrakki ‘carrion-spear’ (Þul Sverða 2/8).