Eykr með ennidúki
jarðhljótr día fjarðar
breyti, hún sás beinan
bindr; seið Yggr til Rindar.
Jarðhljótr, sás bindr beinan hún, eykr breyti fjarðar día með ennidúki; Yggr seið til Rindar.
The land-recipient [RULER], who secures the straight mast, honours the arranger of the fjord of the gods [POETRY > POET] with a headband; Yggr <= Óðinn> obtained Rindr <giantess> through sorcery.
[2, 3] breyti fjarðar día ‘the arranger of the fjord of the gods [POETRY > POET]’: For breyti see Note to l. 3. Díar is a word for ‘gods’ borrowed from Irish (Bugge 1889a, 7; Finnur Jónsson 1931, 111), and it is attested only here in skaldic poetry. Snorri’s use of the word in Skm (SnE 1998, I, 85) and Hkr (Yng ch. 2, ÍF 26, 11) is probably inspired by this stanza. The poem-kenning is somewhat unusual in that the determinants in such kennings are normally ‘dwarfs’, ‘giants’ or ‘Óðinn’ and not ‘gods’, although there are some parallels (cf. Meissner 429-30).