Anon (TGT) 27III/1 — dræpi ‘struck’
Áðr djúphugaðr dræpi
dólga ramr með hamri
gegn á grœðis vagna
gagnsæll faðir Magna.
Áðr djúphugaðr, ramr, gegn, gagnsæll faðir Magna dræpi á dólga grœðis vagna með hamri.
Before the deep-minded, mighty, reliable, victory-blessed father of Magni <god> [= Þórr] struck at the enemies of the sea of wagons [LAND > GIANTS] with his hammer.
readings
[1] dræpi: corrected from ‘drę́gi’ A, drepi W
notes
[1-2] áðr djúphugaðr … dræpi dólga ‘before the deepminded … struck the enemies’: The opening of this stanza is identical with Þjóð Haustl 6/5. Although the subject of the narrative in Haustl 6 is Loki, not Þórr as here, this fragment has strong echoes of the helmingr in Haustl: there, Loki strikes a giant with a pole; here, Þórr strikes a giant with his hammer. The two helmingar contain the only examples in the corpus of a giant-kenning of the type ‘enemy of the land’ (dolgr vallar ‘enemy of the earth’ in Haustl 6/6).