Móinn, hestr, fjǫtri, Móðnir, róni,
alsvartr, apli, askr, malfeti,
Blóðhófr, Hamskarpr, brúnn, Hófvarpnir,
viggr, Skinfaxi, virfill, Hrímfaxi.
Móinn, hestr, fjǫtri, Móðnir, róni, alsvartr, apli, askr, malfeti, Blóðhófr, Hamskarpr, brúnn, Hófvarpnir, viggr, Skinfaxi, virfill, Hrímfaxi.
Brown one, horse, fettered one, Móðnir, gelding, all-black one, foal, ash-tree, gravel-pacer, Blóðhófr, Hamskarpr, black one, Hófvarpnir, steed, Skinfaxi, virfill, Hrímfaxi.
[3] alsvartr (m.) ‘all-black one’: As a horse-heiti the word does not occur elsewhere, but in eddic poetry the adj. alsvartr is an epithet for ‘ox’ (Þry 23/3 and Hym 18/8). Hence the heiti could have been confused with a heiti for ‘ox’ (the latter are sometimes recorded in the present þula, e.g. apli ‘foal’ l. 3 below; see also Note to st. 3/7 above). Alsvartr is also the name of a giant (Þul Jǫtna I 4/7).