Alskír, geisli ok eyglóa,
máni, Miðgarðr, mulinn, tungl ok glámr,
skýðir, œki, skarmr, ártali,
ný, skjalgr, lúna, nið, fengari.
Alskír, geisli ok eyglóa, máni, Miðgarðr, mulinn, tungl ok glámr, skýðir, œki, skarmr, ártali, ný, skjalgr, lúna, nið, fengari.
All-bright one, beam and ever-glow, moon, Miðgarðr, crescent, moon and twilight, hastener, moving one, one dragging forward, year-counter, waxing moon, squinter, lúna, waning moon, fengari.
[5] skýðir (m.) ‘hastener’: A hap. leg. The meaning of this heiti is uncertain. It could be related to OE scūðan ‘hurry’, Old Church Slavonic skytati sę ‘wander’ (ÍO: skýðir), and that meaning has been adopted in the present edn. All mss of Skm (SnE 1998, I, 85) have (normalised) skyndir ‘hastener’ here, which could be a lectio facilior.