Refr Giz 1III/8 — ôr ‘messenger’
Einn háði gný Gunnar
— gall bál Hôars — stála
rimmu askr við rǫskva
regndjarfr tváa þegna.
Dalsteypir hjó Draupnis
dǫgg-Frey banahǫggvi,
— hann rauð járn — en annan
ôr strauma vann sáran.
Askr rimmu, stála regndjarfr, háði einn gný Gunnar við tváa rǫskva þegna; bál Hôars gall. Dalsteypir hjó Draupnis dǫgg-Frey banahǫggvi, en vann annan ôr strauma sáran; hann rauð járn.
The ash-tree of battle [WARRIOR], bold in the rain of steel weapons [(lit. ‘rain-bold of steel weapons’) BATTLE], engaged alone in the din of Gunnr <valkyrie> [BATTLE] against two brave men; the fire of Hárr <= Óðinn> [SWORD] resounded. The bow-destroyer [WARRIOR] dealt the Freyr <god> of the dew of Draupnir <ring> [(lit. ‘Draupnir’s dew-Freyr’) GOLD > MAN] his deathblow and inflicted a wound upon another messenger of currents [SEAFARER]; he reddened iron-blades.
readings
notes
[5, 8] dalsteypir; ôr strauma ‘the bow-destroyer [WARRIOR]; messenger of currents [SEAFARER]’: This edn follows Kock’s (NN §784) interpretation (so also ÍF 27 and Turville-Petre 1976, 91). Dalsteypir ‘bow-destroyer’ has parallels in such kennings as skerðir málma ‘diminisher of weapons’ (Sturl Hryn 2/6II; see also Meissner 288). Kock (NN §839) himself lists several parallels of ôrr strauma ‘messenger of currents [SEAFARER]’. On the use of ôrr ‘messenger’ for ‘man’, see Meissner 272. The interpretation offered by Finnur Jónsson (Skj B; Hkr 1893-1901), by contrast, requires both rearranging the kenning as well as isolating ár in l. 8: strauma dalsteypir = steypir strauma dal(s) ‘pourer of the currents of the bow [ARROWS > WARRIOR]’; ár (l. 8) is rendered as an adv. (ár ‘quickly’; cf. LP: 2. ár 5) modifying hjó ‘hew, struck’ (l. 1).
kennings
- annan ôr strauma — upon another messenger of currents; [SEAFARER]
grammar
case: acc.