Níu eru himnar á hæð talðir;
veit ek inn nezta, sá es Vindbláinn,
sá es Heiðornir ok Hreggmímir;
annarr heitir Andlangr himinn
— þat máttu skilja — þriði Víðbláinn;
Víðfeðmi kveðk vesa inn fjórða,
Hrjóðr — ok Hlýrni hygg inn sétta —
Gimir, Vetmímir; get ek nú vesa
átta himna upp um talða;
Skatyrnir stendr skýjum efri;
hann es útan alla heima.
Níu himnar eru talðir á hæð; ek veit inn nezta, sá es Vindbláinn, sá es Heiðornir ok Hreggmímir; annarr heitir Andlangr himinn – máttu skilja þat – þriði Víðbláinn; kveðk Víðfeðmi vesa inn fjórða, Hrjóðr – ok hygg Hlýrni inn sétta – Gimir, Vetmímir; get ek nú vesa átta himna upp um talða; stendr Skatyrnir efri skýjum; hann es útan alla heima.
Nine heavens are counted on high; I know the lowest, it is Vindbláinn, it is Heiðornir and Hreggmímir; the second is called Andlangr himinn – you can understand that – the third [is] Víðbláinn; Víðfeðmir I say is the fourth; Hrjóðr – and Hlýrnir I believe is the sixth – Gimir, Vetmímir; I say that now eight heavens have been counted; Skatyrnir stands above the clouds; it is beyond all the worlds.
[13] Hrjóðr: ‘[…]riodr’ B, ‘hriodr’ 744ˣ
[13] Hrjóðr (m.): The name is perhaps derived from the strong verb hrjóða ‘cover’ (see Heggstad et al. 2008: hrjóða II) and hence ‘coverer’, or from hrjóða ‘clear’. It could also be derived from hrjóða in the sense ‘stream, flow, scatter’ (e-u hrýðr ‘sth. streams, runs’), and, if so, the name may refer to the sky which sends storms and rain (see ÍO: hrjóð(u)r 2). Since the word also occurs in Þul Sólar l. 3, Falk (1925b, 37) argues that the actual meaning of this name is ‘effulgence’.