Gerðu greppar, þats gumnum bauð;
varð vatni niðr veitt ór fjalli.
Ok seimgefendr snáka þekðu
tryggðarlausa, sem Týr firum
hafði Hristar hugspár sagat.
Greppar gerðu, þats bauð gumnum; varð vatni veitt niðr ór fjalli. Ok seimgefendr þekðu tryggðarlausa snáka, sem hugspár Týr Hristar hafði sagat firum.
Men did as he ordered them; the lake was drained down from the mountain. And the givers of treasure [GENEROUS MEN] could see the treacherous snakes, just as the prophetic-minded Týr <god> of Hrist <valkyrie> [WARRIOR = Merlin] had said to men.
[8, 9] Týr Hristar ‘the Týr <god> of Hrist <valkyrie> [WARRIOR = Merlin]’: The name of the valkyrie, Hrist, functions, like the more common valkyrie-name Hildr, as a replacement for the concept ‘battle’, to create a warrior-kenning, with the base-word the name of the god Týr; cf. Meissner 273.
case: nom.