Veit ek, at fossum falla lét
Jórdán um mik fyr útan Grikki.
Helt þó sínum, sem hverr vissi,
ítrgör skyrta öllum kostum.
Ek veit, at Jórdán lét falla fossum um mik fyr útan Grikki. Þó helt ítrgör skyrta öllum kostum sínum, sem hverr vissi.
I know that the Jordan caused [water] to fall in torrents about me beyond the Greeks. Yet the splendidly made shirt retained all its special qualities, as everyone knows.
[2] Jórdán ‘the Jordan’: The act of bathing in the River Jordan, ascribed here to the legendary Oddr, followed a well-established practice attributed to a number of Scandinavian rulers of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, including Rǫgnvaldr Kali Kolsson, jarl of Orkney. For a list, see Rv Lv 27II, Note to [All].