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.
[4] viði: vini R(36v), viðr U(29v)
[4] gróna viði ‘grown with forest’: The image of Jǫrð’s hair as vegetation also occurs in st. 5/3-4, and (in a line very similar to the present stanza’s l. 4) in Gsind Hákdr 5/3I, a poem for Hákon góði ‘the Good’ Haraldsson.