Hjǫrtr Lv 2II/1 — Hafr ‘A billy-goat’
Hafr es úti hvítr í túni;
skúmir augum, hefr skegg mikit,
brestir klaufum, vill bǫrn taka;
sás geitarson gerr við erru.
Hafr es úti, hvítr í túni; skúmir augum, hefr skegg mikit, brestir klaufum, vill taka bǫrn; sás geitarson, gerr við erru.
A billy-goat is outside, white, in the yard; he grows dark in the eyes, has a huge beard, bangs his hoofs, wants to take children; he is a goat’s son, ready for a quarrel.
notes
[1] hafr ‘billy-goat’: This alludes to the bag of goat-skin filled with gold that Hjǫrtr has brought back from Russia. The bag is also referred to at the beginning of Hem in Hr and Flat, and must have been part of the original þáttr, although the sts are only preserved in the Hb version (see Fellows Jensen 1962, cix-cx, 1).