Sumir viðfiska tóku, sumir vitnishræ skífðu,
sumir Guttormi gáfu gerahold
við mungáti ok marga hluti
aðra í tyfrum.
Sumir tóku viðfiska, sumir skífðu vitnishræ, sumir gáfu Guttormi gerahold við mungáti ok marga aðra hluti í tyfrum.
Some took wood fish [SNAKES], some sliced a wolf carcass, some gave Guttormr wolf flesh with small beer and many other things in magic potions.
[1] viðfiska ‘wood fish [SNAKES]’: Hap. leg. but a cpd conforming to a typical pattern of snake-kennings (Meissner 112-14); cf. myrkaurriða markar ‘the dark trout of the forest’, Ill Har 1/3II, where the reference is to Sigurðr’s killing of Fáfnir.