Himinhrjóðr, simir ok harðfari,
Hœfir, digni, hjǫlluðr, simull,
hliðr, stúfr ok litr, hríðr, forsimi,
Arfr, jǫrmuni ok eikismiðr.
Himinhrjóðr, simir ok harðfari, Hœfir, digni, hjǫlluðr, simull, hliðr, stúfr ok litr, hríðr, forsimi, Arfr, jǫrmuni ok eikismiðr.
Himinhrjóðr, simir and hard-goer, Hœfir, stout one, roarer, simull, hliðr, stump and coloured one, hríðr, forsimi, Arfr, mighty one and eikismiðr.
[4] hjǫlluðr: hjǫllr Tˣ, kjǫllurr A, ‘[…]io᷎llurr’ B, ‘kio᷎llurr’ 744ˣ
[4] hjǫlluðr (m.) ‘roarer’: A hap. leg., cf. ON hjala ‘chatter, talk’ (weak verb), OE hiellan, OHG hellan ‘shout’ (AEW: hjǫlluðr). The heiti belongs to the semantic type ‘noise-maker’ which is used frequently in the þulur (Gurevich 1992c, 40-3). Other ox-names of this type in the present list are olgr ‘noise-maker’, gellir ‘yeller’ (st. 3/5) and glymr ‘roar’ (st. 3/6), but none of them appears in poetry as heiti for ‘ox’.