Enn heitir svá ylgr: vargynja,
borkn ok íma, svimul.
Enn heitir ylgr svá: vargynja, borkn ok íma, svimul.
Moreover a she-wolf is called this: she-wolf, boaster and dusky one, svimul.
[3] borkn: om. C, bokn A, ‘[…]’ B, ‘b . kn’ 744ˣ
[3] borkn (f.) ‘boaster’: A hap. leg. Like the other heiti in this stanza, this is a term for ‘she-wolf’. The heiti could be related to the weak verb berkja ‘boast, bluster’ (cf. OE beorcan, ModEngl. bark; see Alexander Jóhannesson 1927, 74).