unz tírrœkir tœki
tveir brœðr of þat rœða
orð, hvat œski-Nirðir
… framast mynði.
Þollr gat … inn ellri
… fyr bróður
lýst ok langa freistni
… hlífar,
unz tveir tírrœkir brœðr tœki rœða orð of þat, hvat œski-Nirðir … mynði framast; inn ellri þollr … hlífar gat lýst … ok langa freistni … fyr bróður,
until the two renown-cultivating brothers began to speak of that which the wishing-Nirðir <gods> … [MEN] first remembered; the older tree … of the shield [BATTLE > WARRIOR] was able to describe … and long ordeal … to his brother,
[5] …: The l. requires a long syllable alliterating with ellri or þollr (unless a conjecture in l. 6 is made), forming the base-word of a kenning. Jón Helgason proposed éls ‘of the storm’, forming a battle-kenning, but éls would produce three internal rhymes.