Skírnir reið í Iötunheima til Gymis garða.

Skirnir rode into Giant Realms to Gymir's courts.

Þar vóro hundar ólmir,

There were raging dogs there,

ok bundnir fyrir skíðgarðs hliði, þess er um sal Gerðar var.

tied in front of the gate in the wooden enclosure round Gerð´s hall.

Hann reið at þar er féhirðir sat á haugi ok kvaddi hann:

He rode to where a shepherd was sitting on a grave-mound and greeted him:

Segðu þat, hirðir,

Say you shepard,

 

er þú á haugi sitr

-s you sit on the grave-mound

 

ok varðar alla vega,

and watch all the ways,

 

hvé ek at anspilli

how shall I have words

 

komumk ens unga mans

with the young wench

 

fyr greyiom Gymis.

past Gymir´s dogs