Brynhildar líz brögnum
brúnstein hafa fránan
d*óttur mögr inn dýri
ok dyggligast hjarta.
Sjá berr alla ýta
undleygs boði magni,
Buðla niðr, er baugi
bráðgörr, hatar rauðum.
Inn dýri mögr d*óttur Brynhildar líz brögnum hafa fránan brúnstein ok dyggligast hjarta. Sjá niðr Buðla, bráðgörr boði undleygs, er hatar rauðum baugi, berr alla ýta magni.
The noble son of the daughter of Brynhildr [= Kráka/Áslaug > = Sigurðr ormr-í-auga] seems to men to have a glittering brow-stone [EYE] and a most steadfast heart. This descendant of Buðli [= Sigurðr ormr-í-auga], a precocious profferer of the wound-flame [SWORD > WARRIOR], who hates a red ring, surpasses all men in strength.
[6] boði magni: ‘(b[…]di […]g)[…]’(?) 147
[6] boði undleygs ‘a profferer of the wound-flame [SWORD > WARRIOR]’: CPB and Ragn 1891 both read unnleygs ‘of the wave-flame [GOLD]’, here (cf. Anon Gyð 2/2VII), thus making Ragnarr’s son Sigurðr a generous dispenser of gold. This would certainly be consistent with what is said of him in ll. 7-8 (see below), but the ‑dl- spelling is confirmed by both 1824b and 147. While Rafn (FSN) retains the 1824b reading yndleygs, which does not yield a satisfactory meaning, all subsequent eds apart from CPB and Valdimar Ásmundarson (Ragn 1891) read undleygs. On kennings of the ‘wave-fire’ type for gold, see Turville-Petre (1976, xlix-l), and Clunies Ross (1987, 138-50).
case: nom.