Bjǫrn, bersi, bolmr, bera, elgviðnir,
blájaxl, ísolfr ok breiðvegi,
bestingr, bassi, balti, hlébarðr,
úfr, frekr, vilnir, jórekr, mǫsmi,
fetviðnir, húnn, fress, vetrliði,
íugtanni, jalfuðr, ifjungr, vilskarpr.
Bjǫrn, bersi, bolmr, bera, elgviðnir, blájaxl, ísolfr ok breiðvegi, bestingr, bassi, balti, hlébarðr, úfr, frekr, vilnir, jórekr, mǫsmi, fetviðnir, húnn, fress, vetrliði, íugtanni, jalfuðr, ifjungr, vilskarpr.
Bear, little bear, mighty one, she-bear, elk-forest-dweller, dark molar, ice-wolf and broad-fighter, haltered one, bassi, heavy-stepper, hlébarðr, gruff one, greedy one, vilnir, horse-powerful one, mǫsmi, fetviðnir, bear-cub, snarler, winter-survivor, greedy-toothed one, roarer, hooded one, bowel-sharp one.
[10] ‑liði: ‘‑l[…]di’ C, ‘‑l[…]’ B, ‘‑lide’ 744ˣ
[10] vetrliði (m.) ‘winter-survivor’: This heiti may denote a one-year-old bear (‘winter-passer’, from vetr m. ‘winter’ and a derivative of the strong verb líða ‘pass, go’; cf. vetrungr m. ‘one-year-old beast’, New Norw. vetle ‘one-year-old bear’) or it could refer to hibernation (SnE 1998, I, 88, II, 426). Like the preceding bear-heiti, fress ‘snarler’, this word occurs in poetry (LP: vetrliði). Vetrliði is also a m. pers. n.; cf. the C10th skald Vetrliði Sumarliðason (Vetrl).