Skal ek eitrfáa orma telja:
óinn ok Ófnir, œlir, japra,
fúrr, flugdreki, Fáfnir, óri,
fræningr ok áll, feginn ok ornir.
Ek skal telja eitrfáa orma: óinn ok Ófnir, œlir, japra, fúrr, flugdreki, Fáfnir, óri, fræningr ok áll, feginn ok ornir.
I shall enumerate venomous serpents: fearful one and Ófnir, feeder, japra, fire, flying dragon, Fáfnir, raver, flashing one and eel, cheerful one and one warming itself.
[7] fræningr: ‘fre᷎[…]inngr’ B, ‘fre᷎ninngr’ 744ˣ
[7] fræningr (m.) ‘flashing one’: Derived from the adj. fránn ‘gleaming, flashing’, which is a poetic epithet for serpents (cf. Vsp 66/3 (NK 15) naðr fránn ‘gleaming adder’, Fáfn 26/5 (NK 185) inn fráni ormr ‘the gleaming serpent’ and LP: 2. fránn 3). The nominalised form fránn m. ‘serpent’ is attested in skaldic verse but omitted in the present þula. Fræningr is also a poetic term for ‘spear’ (= naðr; LP: fræningr).