Kómu til smíðar spakir vǫlundar
— þats ýtum sagt — uppi í fjalli.
En, þats drengir á degi gerðu,
sá þess engan stað annan morgin.
Spakir vǫlundar kómu til smíðar uppi í fjalli; þats sagt ýtum. En, þats drengir gerðu á degi, sá þess engan stað annan morgin.
Skilful builders came to the work up on the mountain; that is told to men. But what the men achieved by day, nowhere was it to be seen the next morning.
[7] sá þess engan stað ‘nowhere was it to be seen’: Lit. ‘of this [one] saw nowhere’, an impersonal construction with gen. of the object.