Rôð lukusk, at sá síðan
snjallráðr konungs spjalli
átti eingadóttur
Ónars viði gróna.
Rôð lukusk, at sá snjallráðr spjalli konungs átti síðan eingadóttur Ónars, gróna viði.
The marriage was concluded, so that shrewdly-advising king’s intimate [RULER] afterward possessed the only daughter of Ónarr <giant> [= Jǫrð (jǫrð ‘earth’)], grown with forest.
[1] rôð ‘the marriage’: See Fritzner: ráð 13. Rôð (here pl.) could alternatively mean ‘extra-marital sexual relations’, ‘counsel’, ‘strategy’ or ‘agreement’ (CVC: ráð; Fritzner: ráð). The skald exploits this polysemousness to continue the metaphor of Jǫrð as both a goddess, possessed sexually by Hákon, and as the land (jǫrð) of Norway, which he rules.