> Hróiskelda (Roskilde).
‘Hróir’s spring’
> Gellir hafði haft Sköfnung með sér og náðist hann ekki
> síðan.
> Gellir had had Skofung with him, and it didn't often get
> rest.
> Gellir had had Skofnung with him and it could not be
> obtained.
> Gellir had had (ie had taken) Sköfnung with him and it
> (hann) could-not-be-attained (located, recovered?, náast,
> Z5) after that.
In context ‘recovered’ seems about right.
> En hann hafði verið tekinn úr haugi Hrólfs kraka.
> And it had been taken out of Thin Olf's cairn.
> And it had been taken out of the mound of Hrolf kraki.
> And it (ie Sköfnung) had been taken out-of the
> (burial)-mound of Hrólfr kraki (the Thin?).
Thin, and in particular thin of face, if we’re to believe
‘Hrólfs saga kraka ok kappa hans’, in which a fellow named
Vögg says of Hrólf:
Þunnleitr er þessi maðr ok nokkurr kraki í andlitinu ...
This man is thin-faced and rather a pole-ladder in the
face ...
Brian